[ovs-dev] RFC: Let's branch for 2.8 today

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 06:49:53PM +0000, Darrell Ball wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <ovs-dev-bounces at openvswitch.org> on behalf of Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 10:23 AM
> To: "dev at openvswitch.org" <dev at openvswitch.org>
> Subject: [ovs-dev] RFC: Let's branch for 2.8 today
> 
>     I'd like to create branch-2.8 today in preparation for releasing OVS 2.8
>     later in August.  I sent the patch that would lead off the branch a few
>     minutes ago:
>             https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mail.openvswitch.org_pipermail_ovs-2Ddev_2017-2DAugust_336544.html&d=DwICAg&c=uilaK90D4TOVoH58JNXRgQ&r=BVhFA09CGX7JQ5Ih-uZnsw&m=EHRmZog9ZtlKH5MXuo4OklgP6dlm_pfMwfokiw2bXGk&s=udsL-1fyk8cB7_qe39p2Ua8qSMMWmIcBcWDmsjECPTg&e= 
>     
>     According to our published schedule, we should have create branch-2.8 at
>     the beginning of July, but we delayed to allow some more features to
>     enter the 2.8 release.  There continue to be reasonable arguments along
>     these lines in favor of delaying branching further:
>     
>             * Many DPDK patches have been posted but are still under review
>               or awaiting application.
> 
> I don’t see much problem for double commit as the baselines should be
> identical.  However, most DPDK folks are offline until late tonight
> PST; can we give them a chance to be back online before branching ?

Waiting until Wednesday morning (US Pacific) isn't a problem for me.

>     I propose that we branch today, with the following further details:
>     
>             * Continue to apply patches that add features, that as of now
>               have already been posted and ready for review or iterating on
>               reviews, until approximately this Friday.
> 
> For limited scope features, would be ok to allow a little longer,
> maybe early next week ?

OK.