On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM Aaron Conole via discuss <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ales Musil via discuss <[email protected]> writes: > > > The initial discussion was held during the OVN technical community meeting > > - November 3rd > > [0]. The recent patchwork slowness that lasted for a couple of months > > sparked a discussion > > if it's reasonable to switch to a different patchwork instance or platform > > completely. The > > three options listed during the discussion were following: > > > > 1) Keep using the current system. > > > > 2) Switch to Github pull request based approach. That would mean getting > > off the mailing > > list completely. This has some advantages in regards to CI as we wouldn't > > require to pull the > > patches from ML and submit them into a separate repository to do the > > testing. Another > > positive thing might be attracting more contributors. However, there are > > also downsides > > PRs usually means series of commits being submitted together, that might be > > hard to > > review. The conversations in PRs are hard to follow in something bigger. > > > > 3) Use a different patchwork instance. One of the suggested solutions might > > be to move > > not only the patchwork instance, but also ML into Linux Foundation. This > > should bring more > > stability and the overall process would change from the outside > > perspective, the possible > > downside is that this process would be slow spanning over weeks, maybe even > > months. > >
Given that patchwork is very slow again, maybe we should consider moving forward with one of the options listed here. My first preference would be option 3, followed by option 2. Numan > > 4) Use a Gerrit instance, during the meeting there wasn't a huge discussion > > about gerrit and > > given our choices it might actually be more of an extra unless someone has > > a really good > > reason why we would choose that. > > Gerrit brings in a host of problems, imo. Their workflow (especially > when doing some change reviews) is extremely "opinionated" and I've > found it to be very inflexible when I've used it in the past. > > I can think of more reasons *not* to choose Gerrit than to choose it > (for example, the way it requires rebasing after changes). > > > The list is not exhaustive, any other suggestions are very much welcome, > > plus the opinion > > why certain options might be or not be a good idea. I would also like to > > emphasize that this > > is an open ended question. This thread should serve as a discussion > > continuation. Please let > > us know what you think. > > > > [0] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2025-October/426687.html > > > > Best regards, > > Ales > > > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
