-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi Technical Board
I'd like to apply for a MRE for the openvswitch package for 12.04 and above. Background - ---------- Quote (from upstream website - see [0]): "OpenvSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch. It is designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, SPAN, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag). In addition, it is designed to support distribution across multiple physical servers." OpenvSwitch is a core technology in OpenStack deployments that use Neutron based networking; ensuring that we are up-to-date with the latest bug-fixes for a given series is important to ensure the quality of this package in Ubuntu. Upstream Management - -------------------- Upstream (VMware/Nicira) actively maintain the branches associated with the three releases we have right now between 12.04 and 13.10: 12.04: 1.4.x 12.10: 1.4.x 13.04: 1.9.x 13.10: 1.10.x these branches get predominately bug-fix only updates so they would appear to fit with the requirements for a MRE for this package (see [1] for details). It also worth noting that these versions of OpenvSwitch form part of Nicira's commercial Network Virtualization Platform offering, so the upstream focus on quality is high. Ubuntu Testing - -------------- The package build runs an extensive set of unit tests on the userspace daemons and we have DEP-8 tests (see [2]) that exercise the DKMS kernel modules and integration with the userspace tooling post build. As OpenvSwitch is a core component for OpenStack, the Ubuntu Server Team would also smoke test the proposed minor release updates as part of the automated testing activity that we undertake for OpenStack itself. I hope this information gives the technical board sufficient confidence that OpenvSwitch is worthy of a minor release exception for SRU activity. Thanks James [0] http://www.openvswitch.org [1] http://git.openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=summary [2] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Saucy/view/AutoPkgTest/job/saucy-adt-openvswitch/ - -- James Page Ubuntu and Debian Developer james.p...@ubuntu.com jamesp...@debian.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSDiZFAAoJEL/srsug59jDgRwQAIbZnF8+KJ9AUobH4n81b/B9 sBeEa8Jy5OaxAAXPeKkc5jnvlQJVbgljkkNpir/k/6nay+yUP7siIKy89ZqfMkn1 aet8qEFs2a8BO9PrpWUXlDyTrMoes1Wj0Jxho9hmyOIt5nlB7ISNzQG2/5sZvhYz 84Jlq0pVicPw2osSl2ZNt0rR7ctmnQzRyWj/jn/fouvsU6mnJuYRtu4GTA4jfaux 7GUSQeAS9HUaFMkp3UOpQmyRJujA6nneQhKaKCuUX7OUe6sOlpltQYCkgG+mpwzN Qkpil9EhdbCuS3hpYqsrwAKU3E2anutYMTS24U5r4V+u9VUjaq2tSjm28IEisMAF 6CxDtTVHRI6llfcFr9fZCH4iVfs/b2k7tnYtH+UEJ4zncIIbLsUQJtBPR4COYDck NTG1qMY1ao3uavnWiJpYwbYLwgdH5AIqzfA6Qxw+o3HrTRdtzNA4HXtOiVZmu518 J5dv1cu6KlLKf5eQsghejBjDgU7sLqc55yPmnyVLO71dhAil1zfib4XKqT7y1GYk tkYupT0/C54widudDw0sGxW375mXC1wA4RiFOkYVv3ZYRCwynsfZLZfYAVcp581+ N5ZsaXwn225OTfkdNuSvHyP2XIMSJnpZO/m1t3PhBjQQmGblZJ9cv0vX88waHQwj rhzswnzubHXZrekSWPwN =gaHI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
