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

Thu Jul 23 14:45:06 UTC 2020
Thomas F Herbert <therbert at redhat.com>

On 7/6/20 1:34 PM, Dominik Holler wrote:
>
> On 7/6/20 3:55 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> never been involved with the nfv sig,
>>
> Karanbir, looks like you are the only one in the adminstrator role of
> sig-nfv.

I was chair of NFV SIG and active until early 2019. I let it lapse 
because there was no interest and no attendance at meetings and no 
packages because OVS was built elsewhere. There was no interest in DPDK 
and RH pulled out of VPP/fd.io and ODL.

I have not been paying close attention to the mailing list for a few 
months. Alfredo reached out to me and I am happy to help any way I can.

I have been building OVS 2.12.0 RPMs on my own server for CentOS8. I 
have a working package but had write a patch to disable check because 
the Py2/3 stuff didn't seem to be working very well. I haven't built 
anything in CBS for over a year.

>> regards
>>
>> On 06/07/2020 14:23, Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote:
>>> Adding kb as NFV Sig chair.
>>>
>>> What needs to be done to get this moving on?, some maintainers
>>> (including myself) have requested access to nfv-sig group but there has
>>> been no response.
>>>
>>> What's the status of NFV SIG?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:32 PM Dominik Holler <Dominik.Holler at gmx.net
>>> <mailto:Dominik.Holler at gmx.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      > From: Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <amoralej at redhat.com
>>>      <mailto:amoralej at redhat.com>
>>>      > <mailto:amoralej at redhat.com <mailto:amoralej at redhat.com>>>
>>>      > Date: Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 1:24 PM
>>>      > Subject: [CentOS-devel] Rebuilding OpenvSwitch and OVN from Fast
>>>      > DataPath in NFV Sig
>>>      > To: The CentOS developers mailing list. <centos-devel at centos.org
>>>      <mailto:centos-devel at centos.org>
>>>      > <mailto:centos-devel at centos.org <mailto:centos-devel at centos.org>>>
>>>      >
>>>      >
>>>      > 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>
>>>      > <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?
>>>      >
>>>
>>>      I think this would be efficient.
>>>      I already applied to become a member of sig-nfv to help.
>>>
>>>      > Best regards,
>>>      >
>>>      > Alfredo
>>>      >
>>>      >
>>>      > [1] https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/NFV
>>>      > [2]
>>>      >
>>>      ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/8Base/en/Fast-Datapath/SRPMS/
>>>      > [3] https://accounts.centos.org/group/members/sig-nfv
>>>      >
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>>>      > --
>>>      > Didi
>>>      >
>>>
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