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

> 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>>
>
>
> 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?
>

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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