On 9/1/20 9:47 PM, Mark Michelson wrote: > Hi all, > > For the past eternity, there have been light discussions on various > mediums[1] about splitting OVN to its own mailing list(s). As it stands, > OVN discussions and patch submissions are disjoint from OVS, so > separating it out to its own list makes sense. We[2] did some asking > around to try to see if anyone that we know to host mailing lists might > be willing to host an OVN mailing list. Everyone said no. This includes > the Linux Foundation, who already host the OVS lists. > > A few weeks ago, I looked into publicly available mailing list hosts. > The issue there is that, of course, money is a factor. And essentially, > you get what you pay for. The cheap options were missing key features > and didn't offer much support or reliability guarantees, and the > expensive ones were expensive. > > This led to a discussion today on a call between Red Hat and VMWare > about the topic. We came up with some ideas about how to move forward > with this. > > Option 1: Use Google Groups. Dan Williams and I did a quick and dirty > test with the ovn-kubernetes Google Group and found that patch emails > come through properly and can be applied directly to the code. So there > should be no issue in trying to continue our current workflow with it. > > Option 2: Use Github Pull Requests. This would at least get patch > submissions off the OVS list. We would still need to use the OVS list > for OVN discussions though (unless we think Github issues are > appropriate). Github PRs also gives us a simpler way of adding CI. > > Option 3: A gracious volunteer offers to host the OVN list(s). If > someone reading this is willing to have their company host the mailing > list or host it themselves, then that'd be cool. Understand that this > would require a good amount of work to maintain. > > Option 4: A gracious volunteer offers money to pay for the list(s) to be > hosted by one of the public companies that hosts mailing lists. > > Option 5: Do nothing. If email filters are good enough, then so be it. > We can drop the topic entirely and never bring it up again. >
I'm probably biased because I follow the OVN related discussions on this list more than the OVS ones but filters are good enough for me. I am however not against any of the other options above. Regards, Dumitru _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
