On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:05:46AM +0530, Numan Siddique wrote: > Hi Ben, Mark and All, > > Now that branch 2.12 is created, shall we proceed with the OVS/OVN split ? > > In order to do the split we need to do the below tasks > > In ovn-org/ovn repo > Step 1. Sync the ovs subtree to the latest (from the OVS repo). > 2. Delete all the ovn related code from the root dir. Right now there is no > history for the OVN files in the ovn-org/ovn repo > 3. Copy OVN files from openvswitch/ovs repo using git-filter-branch. This > will preserver the history. > 4. Sync the test files from ovs subtree so that tests pass. > > During this period its better to freeze merging OVN related patches in the > OVS repo. > And finally delete the OVN related code from the OVS repo. > > I have done a PoC here - > https://github.com/numansiddique/ovn/commits/ovn_sync_from_ovs_v3/p4 > All the relates commits can be found here. > > > Does these steps seem fine ? Any concerns ? > If this seems fine, can we choose a date to start this process ?
This seems like the right approach to me. I think that it is what we agreed to before. I think it is the right time to do it, too. Mark, will you review what Numan has proposed? I will find time to do it, too. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
