On 7/23/26 9:52 PM, Numan Siddique wrote: > Hi OVN and OVS maintainers > > Jimmy (CC'ed) has raised this PR issue for OVN - > https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/issues/317 > about protecting the release branches. > > Are there any reservations against this request ? Or any downsides ? > > We are setting up pull mirror rules for our downstream OVS and OVN > repos and we want to base it on the protected branches. > > Looks like OVS branches were protected until branch-3.2. > > Can we branch protections for both OVS and OVN ?
Branch protection is a mechanism to prevent direct pushes, AFAIR. So, the only way to merge changes becomes a github PR. Which is not how our development process works. We rely on maintainers pushing code directly to branches where it belongs. And we trust our maintainers to be careful with that. Branch protection is enabled on OVS branches that are no longer maintained to prevent accidental pushes. They are just frozen in time. Same could be done for OVN. But we can't do that for currently maintained branches. Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
