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OVN/OVS Split To-do List
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-Immediate tasks
----------------------------
-
* There are likely many unused files throughout the source tree
since they pertain to OVS rather than OVN. These can also be removed from the
repo.
@@ -36,73 +33,3 @@ Immediate tasks
polish (or even just rewrite it. I won't be offended).
* Cleanup the acinclude.m4 and m4 folder
-
-Immediate to Short-term tasks
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-
-* The Documentation/ directory can use an overhaul. Non-OVN content can be
- removed. The installation guide and tutorials should be reworked to be
- geared towards OVN specifically instead of OVS.
-
-* The tests/ directory contains copies of all "utility" files from the ovs
- repo. These files could be removed in favor of using the files directly
- from the ovs repo instead of the copy. As an example, ofproto-macros.at could
- be removed from the tests/ directory, and we could reference the version in
- the ovs repo instead. There are many other files that this could be done with.
-
-* OVN code needs to be removed from the OVS repo. This should be mostly
- straightforward with a couple of exceptions. There is an include/ovn/
- directory in the ovs repo that should be moved to the ovn repo instead of
- being removed. The other challenge is updating the ovsdb clustering tests.
- They currently make use of the OVN database schemas. They will need to be
- updated not to rely on something from OVN.
-
-* The rhel/ and debian/ directories need updating and testing so that they can
- build ovn. They also need to be modified so that they no longer can build ovs
- packages.
-
-Short to Medium-term tasks
---------------------------
-
-* There are several non-code subdirectories in the ovn repo that have not
- been updated from how they existed in the OVS repo. It should be evaluated
- if there is potential use to modify these to be useful for OVN or if they
- should just be removed. Examples include the poc/ and xenserver/ directories.
-
-Medium to Long-term tasks
--------------------------
-
-* The goal is to eventually not require having ovs as a subtree in the ovn
- repo. Using variables in Makefiles goes a short way towards realizing
- this goal, but it only partially gets us there. We still
- refer to the ovs subtree directly in certain areas, most notably the
- tests/ directory. Getting rid of the ovs subtree can be thought of as a
- two-step process:
-
- 1) Remove all direct references to the ovs subtree from the build system. By
- doing this, it will be possible to have an ovs source repo checked out at
- some other location and have ovn refer to that by using variables.
-
- 2) Alter ovs's build so that it places headers, utilities, etc. in known
- locations on disk when it installs. This way, rather than referring to
- an ovs source repo, we can refer to installation directories in the ovn
- build system. This way, it could be possible to build ovn just by installing
- the development package of ovs as a prerequisite.
-
-* A plan needs to be developed for compatibility between OVN and OVS. There
- are several facets to this
-
- 1) We need to try to determine a policy with regards to what OVS versions
- OVN will be compatible with.
-
- 2) The ovs subtree in ovn currently is the master branch of ovs at the time
- that the ovn repo was split off. It likely will result in a more stable
- environment to use a released version of ovs as our basis instead of an
- arbitrary commit from mid-release.
-
- 3) While ovn was housed in the ovs repo, it was sometimes necessary to
- update ovs or ovsdb code in order to facilitate a new ovn feature. Or it
- might be necessary to fix a bug in ovs in order to fix a bug in ovn. With ovn
- split away, there needs to be a way that ovn developers can contribute changes
- to ovs when necessary but also not have to wait for those changes to be
- available in an ovs release to be able to use them in ovn.
As Ilya commented in the review of the V1 of this series [0] the statement that "all the TODO items listed in it have been addressed" is indeed "a bold statement". However quite a few don't seem applicable anymore. [0] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2024-March/412704.html Signed-off-by: Dumitru Ceara <dceara@redhat.com> --- TODO_SPLIT.rst | 73 -------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 73 deletions(-)