OVSDB:Boron Release Plan

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Last updated: Oct 03, 2020 by Aman .

Contents

Introduction

https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/OVSDB_Integration:Main

Release Deliverables

NameDescription
Code quality, stability and usabilityBug fixing, increase Sonar coverage, increase Tempest coverage
Hardware VTEPhv_vtep southbound, NetVirt
Clustering/HA/PersistenceClustering/HA/Persistence
DPDKEnhancements to support DPDK
Netvirt project splitSpin Netvirt into a separate project
Scalability and performanceScalability and performance measurements and enhancement
VLAN Aware Vm'sVLAN Aware VMs
Transparent VLANsTransparent VLANs
CSIT and TempestImprovements to CSIT and Tempest testing
MDSALMDSAL optimizations
Neutron Northbound CoordinationRework networking-odl configuration

Release Milestones

MilestoneOffset 2 DateDeliverables
M13/24/2016
NameStatusDescription
Intent to participateDoneIntent to participate in Boron Simultaneous Release
Project Lead electedDoneProject Lead election
Test Contact specifiedDoneTest Contact announced
Candidate Release PlanDoneCandidate Release Plan
M25/5/2016
NameStatusDescription
Final Release PlanDoneFinal Release Plan
Project ChecklistDoneProject Checklist completed
OpenDaylight CIDoneOpenDaylight CI infrastructure usage for system test
Project acknowledgementDone
M36/2/2016
NameStatusDescription
Functionality Freeze

Karaf Features Defined

Documentation Started

Feature Test Started

M46/30/2016
NameStatusDescription
API Freeze

Documentation word count

Maven Central Requirements

Feature Test Continues

M58/4/2016
NameStatusDescription
Code Freeze

Stability Branch
Stability branch must be cut and local project versions bumped on the master to avoid overwriting SNAPSHOTS
String Freeze
All externally visible strings frozen to allow for translation & documentation
Documentation Complete
Only editing and enhancing should take place after this point.
Integration & System Test

RC08/11/2016
NameStatus
Release Candidate 0
RC18/18/2016
NameStatus
Release Candidate 1
RC28/25/2016
NameStatus
Release Candidate 2
RC39/1/2016
NameStatusDescription
Bugfix & more
Bugfixing, samples
Release Review
Release Review
Release Candidate 3
Blocking Bugs
Formal Release9/8/2016
NameStatusDescription
Formal Release

Release patch
Release patch to the stable branch and bump versions
SR1 Release
NameStatusDescription
Release patch
Release patch to the stable branch and bump versions
SR2 Release
NameStatusDescription
Release patch
Release patch to the stable branch and bump versions
SR3 Release
NameStatusDescription
Release patch
Release patch to the stable branch and bump versions
SR4 Release
NameStatusDescription
Release patch
Release patch to the stable branch and bump versions

Externally Consumable APIs

ArtifactStatusDescription
SouthboundStableMD-SAL OVSDB crud operations

Expected Dependencies on Other Projects

Providing ProjectDeliverable NameNeeded ByAcknowledged?Description
controllerfeaturesM3Nobasic controller features
mdsalfeaturesM3Nomdsal features
odlparentfeaturesM3Noodlparent values
yangtoolsfeaturesM3Noyangtools for compiling yang

Expected Incompatibilities with Other Projects

Compatibility with Previous Releases

  • Removed APIs and/or Functionality

  • Deprecated APIs and/or Functionality

  • Changed APIs and/or Functionality

Themes and Priorities

  • Increasing code, unit and integration test coverage to improve code quality, stability and usability
  • Additional functionality to support QoS and Queue and hw vtep
  • Scalability and performance improvements
  • Project split

Requests from Other Projects

Active Requests

Test Tools Requirements

System Test

This project plans on using System Test (ST) inside OpenDaylight cloud:

  • the southbound piece: test suites
  • scalability tests: TBD
  • hwvtepsouthbound: TBD

Here is a wiki page presenting the CSIT jobs implemented in the integration/test project regarding some of those modules: OVSDB: CSIT

Unit Test

Integration Test

Cluster Test

End to end Test

Other