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

[Yang, Yi Y]

Thanks Ben, I have posted out NSH patch series v2, please help review, thank you in advance.

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336643.html
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336645.html
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336644.html
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336647.html
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336646.html
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336648.html
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336649.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at ovn.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 11:47 PM
To: Yang, Yi Y <yi.y.yang at intel.com>
Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] RFC: Let's branch for 2.8 today

We'd very much like for 2.8 to include NSH support.  We are already about a month late on branching, and NSH support is one of the main reasons we've delayed branching this long.  But we need to keep approximately to schedule, so we can't wait forever.

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 01:49:00AM +0000, Yang, Yi Y wrote:
> Ericsson, Redhat and Intel has thought OVS 2.8 would include NSH support, there are some projects depending on this, for example, Opendaylight (Openflowplugin, SFC and NetVirt), OPNFV and Openstack (networking-sfc).
> 
> This email is long and easy to make people misunderstand :-) my readout is OVS 2.8 will include NSH support although it is branched now, can you double confirm this? My stakeholders need an affirmative answer.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ovs-dev-bounces at openvswitch.org 
> [mailto:ovs-dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff
> Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 1:24 AM
> To: 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://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336544.html
> 
> 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.
> 
>         * Multiple series of patches leading up to NSH support have been
>           posted but are still iterating through reviews.
> 
> The primary argument in favor of branching quickly is to keep to a regular release cadence.  My understanding is that multiple downstream projects rely on prompt Open vSwitch releases.  (This is mainly based on speaking to Russell Bryant at Red Hat; he can fill in the details if need be.)  I'd prefer to stick to our schedule for this reason.
> 
> 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.  These patches will
>           need to be committed both to master and branch-2.8.
> 
>         * As always, bug fix patches are acceptable on any branch at any
>           time.
> 
>         * Plan to release, given acceptable quality, during the last
>           week of August.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben.
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