On 3/8/23 16:07, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 3/8/23 15:32, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 3:15 PM Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Frode brought up during last week's OVN IRC meeting the possibility of
>>> moving ovn-heater [0] to the ovn-org [1] organization.
>>>
>>> For some context: today ovn-heater uses containers on multiple bare
>>> metal machines to simulate OVN nodes provisioned by ovn-kubernetes
>>> (already part of ovn-org [2]) in various scenarios.  This is used to
>>> benchmark OVN (and ovsdb-server and other OVS components) at scale in
>>> these scenarios.
>>>
>>> We (at Red Hat) have been using ovn-heater consistently (weekly runs)
>>> throughout the last year in order to benchmark OVN in OpenShift like
>>> scenarios in clusters scaling up to 500 nodes.  These runs have already
>>> helped us pin-point a lot of the scale related issues (both OVN and
>>> ovsdb-server) that have been fixed in the last months/year.
>>>
>>> The core of ovn-heater is (rather simple) python code so there should be
>>> no reason that would block us from adding more scale test scenarios to
>>> simulate clusters provisioned by other CMS (e.g., OpenStack) turning
>>> ovn-heater into a generic OVN scale testing tool.
>>>
>>> I cc-ed all the OVN maintainers and all GitHub ovn-org owners but
>>> feedback from the whole community is more than welcome!
> 
> As a piece of feedback from the contributor to that project,
> I think it needs a contribution guide and a documented
> contribution policy such as adoption of DCO, for example.
> AUTHORS file may need some updates.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that all the contributors so far had a right
> to contribute their code.  But these policies might be good
> to iron out before "going public".

Many thanks for pointing this out!  I opened an initial PR to take care
of some of this:

https://github.com/dceara/ovn-heater/pull/155

> 
> DCO bot is in use by some of the existing ovn-org projects,
> so it may help enforcing policies after migration.
> 

Sounds applicable indeed.

> My 2c.
> 
> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
> 

Thanks,
Dumitru

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