OVSDB:Carbon Release Plan

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Last updated: Oct 03, 2020 by Aman .

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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 VTEP ReconciliationHardware VTEP configuration reconciliation
Clustering ImprovementsImproving the existing clustering implementation. Exploring the singleton clustering Service.
Scalability and performanceScalability and performance measurements and enhancement
Refactoring of OVSDB LibraryOVSDB library is using the legacy code developed for AD-SAL OVSDB. It requires a refactoring to make is clean and robust.
Hardware VTEP Schema UpdateHardware VTEP schema update device for acl and l3.
Hardware VTEP Yang ImprovementsExplore the possibility to improve the yang model for better performance of the plugin.
CSITImprovements to CSIT to cover all the features supported by OVSDB
DocumentationProvide documentation structure in OVSDB repo, so that committers can push the docs changes in the ovsdb repo. The plan is to build the documentation with the feature development.
Higher Level Abstraction LayerExplore how OVSDB plugin can provide the higher-level abstraction to do some common operation without doing much boilerplate coding.

Release Milestones

MilestoneOffset 2 DateDeliverables
M110/27/2016
NameStatusDescription
Intent to participateDoneIntent to participate in Carbon Simultaneous Release
Project Lead electedDoneProject Lead election
Test Contact specifiedDoneTest Contact announced
Candidate Release PlanDoneCandidate Release Plan
M212/1/2016
NameStatusDescription
Final Release PlanDoneFinal Release Plan
Project ChecklistDoneProject Checklist completed
OpenDaylight CIDoneOpenDaylight CI infrastructure usage for system test
Project acknowledgementDoneController, Yangtools, ODL Parents, MDSAL
M31/19/2017
NameStatusDescription
Functionality Freeze

Karaf Features Defined

Documentation Started

Feature Test Started

M42/16/2017
NameStatusDescription
API Freeze

Documentation word count

Maven Central Requirements

Feature Test Continues

M53/16/2017
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

RC04/13/2017
NameStatus
Release Candidate 0
RC14/20/2017
NameStatus
Release Candidate 1
RC24/27/2017
NameStatus
Release Candidate 2
RC35/4//2017
NameStatusDescription
Bugfix & more
Bugfixing, samples
Release Review
Release Review
Release Candidate 3
Blocking Bugs
Formal Release5/11/2017
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
OVSDB SouthboundStableMD-SAL OVSDB crud operations
Hardware VTEP SouthboundStableMD-SAL Hardware VTEP 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

Both the plugins (OVSDB and Hardware VTEP) will be compatible with the previous release.

Removed APIs and/or Functionality

QoS related API's were deprecated in previous releases and they will be removed in this release.

Deprecated APIs and/or Functionality

Changed APIs and/or Functionality

Themes and Priorities

  • Usability improvement
  • Increasing code, unit and integration test coverage to improve code quality, stability and usability
  • Scalability and performance improvements
  • Documentation
  • Exploring future improvement by doing proof of concept in this release.

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