The initial discussion was held during the OVN technical community meeting - November 3rd [0]. The recent patchwork slowness that lasted for a couple of months sparked a discussion if it's reasonable to switch to a different patchwork instance or platform completely. The three options listed during the discussion were following:
1) Keep using the current system. 2) Switch to Github pull request based approach. That would mean getting off the mailing list completely. This has some advantages in regards to CI as we wouldn't require to pull the patches from ML and submit them into a separate repository to do the testing. Another positive thing might be attracting more contributors. However, there are also downsides PRs usually means series of commits being submitted together, that might be hard to review. The conversations in PRs are hard to follow in something bigger. 3) Use a different patchwork instance. One of the suggested solutions might be to move not only the patchwork instance, but also ML into Linux Foundation. This should bring more stability and the overall process would change from the outside perspective, the possible downside is that this process would be slow spanning over weeks, maybe even months. 4) Use a Gerrit instance, during the meeting there wasn't a huge discussion about gerrit and given our choices it might actually be more of an extra unless someone has a really good reason why we would choose that. The list is not exhaustive, any other suggestions are very much welcome, plus the opinion why certain options might be or not be a good idea. I would also like to emphasize that this is an open ended question. This thread should serve as a discussion continuation. Please let us know what you think. [0] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2025-October/426687.html Best regards, Ales
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