[CentOS-devel] Rebuilding OpenvSwitch and OVN from Fast DataPath in NFV Sig

On 6/17/20 6:23 AM, Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> During the last years OpenVswitch and OVN have become a major dependency 
> for several projects and SIGs in the CentOS ecosystem, including 
> OpenStack, oVirt and OpenShift. During this time each project has been 
> following its own  way with limited coordination (just some 
> opportunistic cross-tagging between SIGs) and different approaches, 
> rebuilding Fedora builds or FDP srpms from ftp.redhat.com 
> <http://ftp.redhat.com> from time to time in their own tags and repos.
> 
> This has led to multiple issues and suboptimal usage resources so I 
> think a good step ahead would be to use existing NFV SIG [1] as a 
> collaboration area for all the interested projects to build, test and 
> ship OpenvSwitch and OVN using public SRPMs from Fast Datapath [2].
> 
> What I'm proposing is that the interested people in becoming maintainers 
> for OVS/OVN in NFV Sig request membership to nfv-sig group [3]. Then, 
> we'll coordinate to request new tags/buildroots for OVS/OVN and start 
> building and testing the required releases.
> 
> Any thoughts on this proposal?

Given that the SIG chair is incommunicado, are you suggesting yourself 
as the new SIG chair? Or is someone else volunteering for this?