[ovs-dev] May we delay ovn-21.09?

[Frode Nordahl]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 8:33 PM Mark Michelson <mmichels at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> If you've paid attention to ovn commits lately, you'll know that we've
> been putting in a lot of performance improvements. At Red Hat, this is
> because we've been engaging our scale team to try to help us to figure
> out bottlenecks in OVN and try to fix problem areas we find. As a happy
> coincidence, OVN developers from outside Red Hat have also been
> submitting fantastic optimizations lately.
>
> Currently, ovn-21.09's soft freeze is scheduled for the end of this week
> (13 August). However, the Red Hat scale team has scheduled time through
> 3 September for running large-scale tests. This effectively means that
> if we delayed until then, we could put even more optimizations into
> ovn-21.09 than we could if we were to soft-freeze now.
>
> If we were to delay soft freeze until 3 September, then that would mean
> branching 2 weeks from then (17 September) and then releasing 2 weeks
> after that (1 October). This puts us releasing more-or-less one month
> later than the published schedule in the repository.
>
> If this sort of delay would cause issues for developers, users, or
> organizations, please speak up. If anyone has an issue with delaying the
> release, we won't do it. After all, we published expected release dates
> and have already drifted on this one by a week. It's entirely possible
> people are relying on OVN 21.09 to be released then.

We have no issue with such a delay, and welcome the large-scale test
efforts. We are tracking OVN 21.09 for the soon to be released Ubuntu
21.10 (Impish Indri) and will plan accordingly.

Cheers!

-- 
Frode Nordahl

> Thanks,
> Mark Michelson
>
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