[ovs-dev] OVN 20.09 Soft freeze

Ihar Hrachyshka ihrachys at redhat.com
Mon Sep 21 13:11:41 UTC 2020


To clarify, is multibridge patch considered or not at this point?
There were a bunch of review iterations lately but not sure if anyone
from core team was still considering it.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 3:19 AM Numan Siddique <numans at ovn.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:55 AM Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:13 PM Numan Siddique <numans at ovn.org> wrote:
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>> > Hi All,
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>> > 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.
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>> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 9:32 AM Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> >> Hi Mark and all,
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>> >> Sorry for this late reply, I have my head in the wrong place lately.
>> >>
>> >> I would like these two bits considered for freeze inclusion:
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>> >> 1. VXLAN support:
>> >> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20200826171253.1010528-1-ihrachys@redhat.com/
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>> >
>> > Hi Ihar,
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>> > 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.
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>> Thanks Numan, I sent v7 just now with your comments addressed:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/patch/20200917032118.1610794-1-ihrachys@redhat.com/
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> Thanks Ihar. I applied this patch to master.  I also applied this patch to the branch-20.09 since you requested this
> feature to be considered and I found  the patch to be low risk.
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> I think with this patch, we can close the branch-20.09 for any new features and prepare for the release.
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> Thanks
> Numan
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>> >> 2. Multibridge / colocated chassis support:
>> >> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/list/?series=201739
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>> >> The former needs some minor adjustments (will send an update
>> >> tomorrow), the latter has all comments / known issues addressed.
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>> > I could not look into this second one. I would appreciate it if someone can review this patch.
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>> No problem. There was another iteration today with some adjustments:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/patch/20200917021542.1484387-1-ihrachys@redhat.com/
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>> > Thanks
>> > Numan
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>> >>
>> >> Let me know if there's still time to consider these two pieces.
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>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Ihar
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>> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 9:35 AM Mark Michelson <mmichels at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> >> > Hi everyone,
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>> >> > 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.
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>> >> > 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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