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

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 3:30 PM Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote:

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> 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?
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>
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.


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