[ovs-dev] OVS / OVN split - post 2.12

[Mark Michelson]

Numan and I have discussed this, and we're planning to perform the split 
tomorrow July 25. Numan will be applying the commits he referenced below 
to the ovn-org branch to get it up to date. I will be submitting a 
review for OVS to remove all of the OVN code, documentation, etc. from it.

If there are any reasons why we should hold off on this, please mention 
them as soon as possible.

Thanks

On 7/22/19 2:35 PM, Numan Siddique wrote:
> Hi Ben, Mark and All,
> 
> Now that branch 2.12 is created, shall we proceed with the OVS/OVN split ?
> 
> In order to do the split we need to do the below tasks
> 
> In ovn-org/ovn repo
> Step 1. Sync the ovs subtree to the latest (from the OVS repo).
> 2. Delete all the ovn related code from the root dir. Right now there is 
> no history for the OVN files in the ovn-org/ovn repo
> 3. Copy OVN files from openvswitch/ovs repo using git-filter-branch. 
> This will preserver the history.
> 4. Sync the test files from ovs subtree so that tests pass.
> 
> During this period its better to freeze merging OVN related patches in 
> the OVS repo.
> And finally delete the OVN related code from the OVS repo.
> 
> I have done a PoC here - 
> https://github.com/numansiddique/ovn/commits/ovn_sync_from_ovs_v3/p4
> All the relates commits can be found here.
> 
> 
> Does these steps seem fine ? Any concerns ?
> If this seems fine, can we choose a date to start this process ?
> 
> Thanks
> Numan
>