On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> wrote: > On 9 June 2016 at 08:50, Terry Wilson <twil...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org> wrote: > >> The real solution to making this less awkward would be to split the > Python > >> library out of the OVS git tree so that it can be released > independently of > >> OVS itself. That way a proper verison could be released that includes > >> Python 3 support. > > > > This would be very nice. There are some challenges to overcome. The > > testing infrastructure between the Python and C implementations is > > shared. Out of tree it becomes more a bit more difficult to make sure > > that they stay in sync both feature and compatibility-wise. My gut > > feeling is that it would still be worth the work, though. There's no > > good reason for releases of the Python library to be tied OVS > > releases. > > Setting aside the python3 compatibility issues, the typical number of > commits to this library between releases is pretty small (<10). They > seem to be largely independent of other changes in the OVS tree, but > occasionally they are coupled to other changes. > > Is the proposal really fixing an ongoing issue or just a one-off? It > seems like a lot of effort unless the pace of development on this > library significantly increases and users really need a more frequent > release cycle (for example, because they're releasing versions of > their software more regularly than the OVS and need the latest and > greatest python-ovs).
My impression was roughly that it's a fairly new, but an increasing issue. The OpenStack Neutron plugin for OVS and now OVN make heavy use of the library. The OVN Kubernetes integration (CNI plugin) also uses this library. I would expect all of this new heavy usage to lead to increased developement in the library. Availability of bug fixes has been the most significant pain point in the psat. That could be addressed by making more frequent point releases from OVS release branches. If we add features, they're really supposed to be in a proper release before we can use them in OpenStack. It would be nice to have the option to accelerate it. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
