<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 3:30 PM Rich Bowen <<a href="mailto:rbowen@redhat.com" target="_blank">rbowen@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 6/17/20 6:23 AM, Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> During the last years OpenVswitch and OVN have become a major dependency <br>
> for several projects and SIGs in the CentOS ecosystem, including <br>
> OpenStack, oVirt and OpenShift. During this time each project has been <br>
> following its own way with limited coordination (just some <br>
> opportunistic cross-tagging between SIGs) and different approaches, <br>
> rebuilding Fedora builds or FDP srpms from <a href="http://ftp.redhat.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ftp.redhat.com</a> <br>
> <<a href="http://ftp.redhat.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ftp.redhat.com</a>> from time to time in their own tags and repos.<br>
> <br>
> This has led to multiple issues and suboptimal usage resources so I <br>
> think a good step ahead would be to use existing NFV SIG [1] as a <br>
> collaboration area for all the interested projects to build, test and <br>
> ship OpenvSwitch and OVN using public SRPMs from Fast Datapath [2].<br>
> <br>
> What I'm proposing is that the interested people in becoming maintainers <br>
> for OVS/OVN in NFV Sig request membership to nfv-sig group [3]. Then, <br>
> we'll coordinate to request new tags/buildroots for OVS/OVN and start <br>
> building and testing the required releases.<br>
> <br>
> Any thoughts on this proposal?<br>
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Given that the SIG chair is incommunicado, are you suggesting yourself <br>
as the new SIG chair? Or is someone else volunteering for this?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm fine with chairing NFV Sig for this new limited purpose unless someone from the previous members show up. I'll see if I can engage someone from the NFV area to maintain vpp or other related packages for CentOS 8 too.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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