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

Mon Jul 6 13:23:49 UTC 2020
Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <amoralej at redhat.com>

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>
wrote:

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> > From: Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <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>>
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> > Hi,
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> > 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.
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> > 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].
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> > 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.
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> > Any thoughts on this proposal?
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> I think this would be efficient.
> I already applied to become a member of sig-nfv to help.
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> > Best regards,
> >
> > Alfredo
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> > [1] https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/NFV
> > [2]
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> 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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