On 8/29/25 7:56 PM, Mark Michelson via dev wrote: > OVN has grown in popularity over the years, and as a result, we are > receiving many more feature request patches than we had in previous > release cycles. The past two or three release cycles, we have had to > either delay soft freeze or extend soft freeze in order to allow for > requested submissions to be considered. > > This documentation change proposes extending the soft freeze period from > two weeks to four weeks, to give more time for reviews prior to testing. > > From the release calendar update in 2026, you can see that the way this > is accomplished is by moving the branch and subsequent release two weeks > later than they had previously been. The other option was to move soft > freeze two weeks earlier, but this has the potential to cause problems > for patches that rely on new OVS features. OVS soft freeze currently > ends right as OVN's is beginning. Thus if an OVN feature relies on an > OVS patch to go in first, then it works out well with the current > schedule. If OVN and OVS have overlapping soft freeze periods, then > trying to get the OVN patches reviewed could be a challenge. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <[email protected]> > --- > There are no changes to this patch from the RFC version. > ---
Hi Mark, This looks good to me, thanks! Acked-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]> Regards, Dumitru _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
