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

Mon Jul 6 17:34:07 UTC 2020
Dominik Holler <Dominik.Holler at gmx.net>


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.

> 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:
>>
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>>     > 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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