[ovs-dev] OVN Mailing List Suggestions

Dumitru Ceara dceara at redhat.com
Wed Sep 2 10:19:29 UTC 2020


On 9/1/20 9:47 PM, Mark Michelson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For the past eternity, there have been light discussions on various
> mediums[1] about splitting OVN to its own mailing list(s). As it stands,
> OVN discussions and patch submissions are disjoint from OVS, so
> separating it out to its own list makes sense. We[2] did some asking
> around to try to see if anyone that we know to host mailing lists might
> be willing to host an OVN mailing list. Everyone said no. This includes
> the Linux Foundation, who already host the OVS lists.
> 
> A few weeks ago, I looked into publicly available mailing list hosts.
> The issue there is that, of course, money is a factor. And essentially,
> you get what you pay for. The cheap options were missing key features
> and didn't offer much support or reliability guarantees, and the
> expensive ones were expensive.
> 
> This led to a discussion today on a call between Red Hat and VMWare
> about the topic. We came up with some ideas about how to move forward
> with this.
> 
> Option 1: Use Google Groups. Dan Williams and I did a quick and dirty
> test with the ovn-kubernetes Google Group and found that patch emails
> come through properly and can be applied directly to the code. So there
> should be no issue in trying to continue our current workflow with it.
> 
> Option 2: Use Github Pull Requests. This would at least get patch
> submissions off the OVS list. We would still need to use the OVS list
> for OVN discussions though (unless we think Github issues are
> appropriate). Github PRs also gives us a simpler way of adding CI.
> 
> Option 3: A gracious volunteer offers to host the OVN list(s). If
> someone reading this is willing to have their company host the mailing
> list or host it themselves, then that'd be cool. Understand that this
> would require a good amount of work to maintain.
> 
> Option 4: A gracious volunteer offers money to pay for the list(s) to be
> hosted by one of the public companies that hosts mailing lists.
> 
> Option 5: Do nothing. If email filters are good enough, then so be it.
> We can drop the topic entirely and never bring it up again.
> 

I'm probably biased because I follow the OVN related discussions on this
list more than the OVS ones but filters are good enough for me.

I am however not against any of the other options above.

Regards,
Dumitru



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