On Sep 4, 2013, at 7:11 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > This email is an update for the initial hackathon plan that I sent out > earlier this month. Everything in that email is still accurate. You > can read the earlier email at: > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2013-August/000053.html > > The main purpose of this email is to answer questions I've had from a > few people about what work needs to be done. If you want to volunteer > for something (either on one of the lists below or something else), > please mention it to me or on ovs-dev. > > > Claimed Tasks > ------------- > > The following tasks have been tentatively claimed already: > > * Groups are in! > > * Andy Zhou has volunteered to implement OFPT_TABLE_MOD. (He > might implement the OF1.3 more flexible table miss support, > which is related.) > > * Simon Horman is working on MPLS. > > * Alexandru Copot <alex.miha...@gmail.com> is working on > OFPT_GET_ASYNC_REQUEST and OFPT_GET_ASYNC_REPLY. > > * Simon Horman is working on implementing the Write-Actions > instruction (and has already submitted code!). > > * Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com> is working on the ability > for OFPT_FLOW_MOD to delete flows in all tables. > > * Daniel Baluta <dbal...@ixiacom.com> is working on on-demand flow > counters, e.g. OFPFF_NO_PKT_COUNTS and OFPFF_NO_BYT_COUNTS. > > > Unclaimed Tasks (Small, Required) > --------------------------------- > > The following tasks could use volunteers. These tasks are all > required for OpenFlow compliance. My guess is that an average > developer could build any of these within the two days of the > hackathon or less. > > * QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REQUEST and QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REPLY messages. > OVS has never implemented these at all, which is more or less a > bug. We should implement at least stubs for these. > > Kyle Mestery and Pritesh have expressed interest in the following but > I do not yet have a confirmation from them on either one: > > * Rework tag order. > > * OpenFlow 1.3+ multipart requests infrastructure. > Just an update: Pritesh and I will take the above two items.
Thanks, Kyle > > Unclaimed Tasks (Large, Optional) > --------------------------------- > > The following tasks could also use volunteers. All of them are also, > coincidentally, optional according to the OpenFlow specification. My > guess is that each of these would require more than two days of work. > Most of them require kernel work. (I don't realistically expect > anyone to do these for the hackathon, but you never know.) > > * QinQ. > > * VLANs with 88a8 Ethertype. > > * OFPMP_TABLE_FEATURES. (This requires the multipart requests > infrastructure.) > > * Per-flow meters implementation for ofproto-dpif. > > * Auxiliary connections. > > * PBB tagging. > > > Stickers > -------- > > The stickers are a go! I've ordered a batch of 5"x3" stickers labeled > "I <3 OVS". They should arrive the week after the hackathon and then > I'll mail them to anyone outside the Palo Alto local area. The > design, by Duffie Cooley, is here: > http://openvswitch.org/ovs-sticker.jpg _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
