* yulin...@dell.com (yulin...@dell.com) wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could help me with a question related to the 
> guideline of Quantum plugin development.
> 
> Let's say if we need to develop a quantum plugin and we would need to use OVS 
> plugin in our plugin. Is it a good practice to change the code of OVS plugin 
> when we need to, or we should preserve the OVS plugin and only add code on 
> top of it?

It really depends on the specific details of your changes.

> Or in another word, if we would need to contribute back our quantum plugin to 
> OpenStack, will there be any issue if we changed OVS plugin in our solution?

There's been a few different efforts here.  A promising forward
looking one is from Bob Kukura (Cc'd) called ML2.

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/modular-l2

You may want to read the details of this gerrit review:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/20754/

To see some of the issues that you'd likely hit w/out ml2.

thanks,
-chris

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