[ovs-dev] OVN 20.09 Soft freeze

Ihar Hrachyshka ihrachys at redhat.com
Thu Sep 17 03:25:05 UTC 2020


On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:13 PM Numan Siddique <numans at ovn.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> branch-20.09 has been created. Please note that after the soft freeze, there have been few bug fixes
> and Anton's most of the build_lrouter_flows refactor patches have been applied by me. Since those
> patches split the code into functions, I thought of including them before creating the branch.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 9:32 AM Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark and all,
>>
>> Sorry for this late reply, I have my head in the wrong place lately.
>>
>> I would like these two bits considered for freeze inclusion:
>>
>> 1. VXLAN support:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20200826171253.1010528-1-ihrachys@redhat.com/
>
>
> Hi Ihar,
>
> I provided some comments to your patch. Since 18th  September is the hard freeze,  If you can address
> the comments and post the patch, I can take a look.
>

Thanks Numan, I sent v7 just now with your comments addressed:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/patch/20200917032118.1610794-1-ihrachys@redhat.com/

>
>>
>> 2. Multibridge / colocated chassis support:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/list/?series=201739
>>
>> The former needs some minor adjustments (will send an update
>> tomorrow), the latter has all comments / known issues addressed.
>>
>
> I could not look into this second one. I would appreciate it if someone can review this patch.
>

No problem. There was another iteration today with some adjustments:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/patch/20200917021542.1484387-1-ihrachys@redhat.com/

> Thanks
> Numan
>
>>
>> Let me know if there's still time to consider these two pieces.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ihar
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 9:35 AM Mark Michelson <mmichels at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I realized that I completely let August slip away, and so we're overdue
>> > to start the release process for the 20.09.0 release of OVN.
>> >
>> > I propose that soft freeze for 20.09 will be on Friday 11 September,
>> > 2020. Any feature patches that you wish to have included in 20.09.0 must
>> > be published to the dev list by that date.
>> >
>> > For 20.06, we had a long turnaround between soft freeze and actual
>> > release due to some last second submissions and long review processes.
>> > To help that not happen this time, please respond to this email as soon
>> > as possible to let us know which outstanding patches should be reviewed
>> > for 20.09 inclusion, and please try to get your patches posted as soon
>> > as possible.
>> >
>> > Once soft freeze hits, we will create the 20.09 branch, and we will
>> > review and test patches to get them included in the branch. Friday 18
>> > September will be hard freeze. This is when we stop placing any new
>> > feature patches in the branch. From there, we will have a week to
>> > perform any testing before releasing on Friday 25 September.
>> >
>> > To prevent this sort of situation in the future where time slips away,
>> > I'm going to make an update to the release process document in OVN that
>> > clarifies the timeline some more and uses actual calendar dates.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Mark Michelson
>> >
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