[CentOS-devel] [NFVSig] [Meeting] NFVSig relaunch (was: Re: Rebuilding OpenvSwitch and OVN from Fast DataPath in NFV Sig)

Tue Jul 21 15:14:38 UTC 2020
Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <amoralej at redhat.com>

Hi,

Because of conflicts with another meeting, this has been rescheduled for
July 22nd, 15:00 UTC in #centos-meeting, see you there!

Regards,

Alfredo


On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:30 AM Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <
amoralej at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been approved as the new chair for NFV SIG.
>
> I'd like to organize an irc meeting with all interested maintainers to
> discuss the goals and next actions of the SIG with the rest of the members.
> I'm proposing the meeting for the July 21st, 15:00 UCT time in
> #centos-meeting, the agenda is in:
>
> https://review.rdoproject.org/etherpad/p/NFVSIG-meeting
>
> If you are interested in being involved in the SIG in some way, please
> join us and feel free to add your topics in the agenda.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alfredo
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 4:12 PM Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <
> amoralej at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 3:30 PM Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>> 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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