> On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 07:53:18PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone. Last week I spent an afternoon with the OVS-DPDK > > > folks at Intel in Shannon, Ireland. One of the ideas that came out > > > of it was a proposal for the contributors at each company to > > > publish, at the beginning of each release cycle, a list of what > > > features and other contributions they were planning to target for the > upcoming release. > > > This sounds useful to me as a way for each of the major contributors > > > to get an idea of what to expect and how to coordinate over a > > > release cycle. > > > > > > I believe that Intel is volunteering to kick this off in the 2.9 > > > release cycle for OVS. I'm going to try to get us here at VMware to > > > write a list as well, and I encourage other contributors to give it > > > a try as well. > > > > > > If this works out then I'd consider adding a item for it to > > > release-process.rst in the tree. > > > > Sure - the more communication the better. > > > > My only concern is continuing to set clear expecations that the > > release cycle is time based. It should be clear that the list is not > > a committed roadmap, but a living document communicating intent that > > is subject to change if features miss the release schedule. > > Good point, I agree that we should be clear that we're sticking to a time- > based release plan.
I completely agree, the release date should not change to suit a planned feature. I also think the visibility of a roadmap will be beneficial when flagging why a planned feature will not make a release (i.e. it could be blocked by an external requirement such as a change required in DPDK etc.). For those interested an example of how this would look, below is a link to the recent DPDK 17.11 Intel roadmap announcement http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/071888.html I'm drafting a OVS 2.9 feature roadmap for Intel with OVS-DPDK at the moment, should be able to send it out early next week. Ian > _______________________________________________ > 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
