Hi, Ben Ericsson, Redhat and Intel has thought OVS 2.8 would include NSH support, there are some projects depending on this, for example, Opendaylight (Openflowplugin, SFC and NetVirt), OPNFV and Openstack (networking-sfc).
This email is long and easy to make people misunderstand :-) my readout is OVS 2.8 will include NSH support although it is branched now, can you double confirm this? My stakeholders need an affirmative answer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 1:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ovs-dev] RFC: Let's branch for 2.8 today I'd like to create branch-2.8 today in preparation for releasing OVS 2.8 later in August. I sent the patch that would lead off the branch a few minutes ago: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/336544.html According to our published schedule, we should have create branch-2.8 at the beginning of July, but we delayed to allow some more features to enter the 2.8 release. There continue to be reasonable arguments along these lines in favor of delaying branching further: * Many DPDK patches have been posted but are still under review or awaiting application. * Multiple series of patches leading up to NSH support have been posted but are still iterating through reviews. The primary argument in favor of branching quickly is to keep to a regular release cadence. My understanding is that multiple downstream projects rely on prompt Open vSwitch releases. (This is mainly based on speaking to Russell Bryant at Red Hat; he can fill in the details if need be.) I'd prefer to stick to our schedule for this reason. I propose that we branch today, with the following further details: * Continue to apply patches that add features, that as of now have already been posted and ready for review or iterating on reviews, until approximately this Friday. These patches will need to be committed both to master and branch-2.8. * As always, bug fix patches are acceptable on any branch at any time. * Plan to release, given acceptable quality, during the last week of August. Thoughts? Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
