Introduction

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

Trello

The Trello is at [1].

Release Deliverables

Name	Description
Bug fixing	High-priority bug fixes. Bugs identified when the odl stackforge testing infrastructure is in place.
Sonar coverage	Increase unit, integration and code coverage reported by Sonar to improve code quality and stability
Tempest coverage	Enable more Tempest test coverage
AD-SAL Deprecation	Deprecate AD-SAL dependencies
MD-SAL OVSDB	Add MD-SAL interface to OVSDB

Release Milestones

Milestone

Offset 2 Date

Deliverables

M1

1/8/2015

Name	Status	Description
Intent to participate	Done	Intent to participate in Lithium Simultaneous Release
Project Lead elected	Done	Project Lead election
Test Contact specified	Done	Test Contact announced
Candidate Release Plan	Done	Candidate Release Plan

M2

2/5/2015

Name	Status	Description
Release Plan	Done	Final Release Plan
Project Checklist	Done	Project Checklist completed
OpenDaylight CI	Done	OpenDaylight CI infrastructure usage for system test
Rackspace Test Tools Installation	Done

M3

3/19/2015

Name	Status	Description
Functionality Freeze	Done
Karaf Features Defined	Done	User Facing Features
Documentation Started	Done	Gerrit 18486 Gerrit 20328
Integration and System Test Template	Done	OVSDB:Lithium_Integration_Test

M4

4/16/2015

Name	Status	Description
API Freeze	Done
Documentation word count	Done
Maven Central Requirements	Done
Simple Integration and System Test	Done

M5

5/14/2015

Name	Status	Description
Code Freeze	Done
Stability Branch	Done	Stability branch, i.e., stable/lithium, must be cut and local project versions bumped on the master to avoid overwriting lithium SNAPSHOTS
String Freeze	Done	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	Done

RC0

5/28/2015

Name	Status
Release Candidate 0

RC1

6/4/2015

Name	Status
Release Candidate 1

RC2

6/11/2015

Name	Status
Release Candidate 2

RC3

6/18/2015

Name	Status	Description
Bugfix & more		Bugfixing, samples
Release Review		Release Review
Release Candidate 3
Blocking Bugs

Formal Release

6/25/2015

Name	Status	Description
Formal Lithium Release
Release patch		Release patch to the stable/lithium branch and bump versions

SR1 Release

8/13/2015

Name	Status	Description
Release patch		Release patch to the stable/lithium branch and bump versions

SR2 Release

9/24/2015

Name	Status	Description
Release patch		Release patch to the stable/lithium branch and bump versions

Externally Consumable APIs

Artefact	Status	Description
OvsdbInventoryListener	Stable	Existing APIs to perform OVSDB crud operations
Southbound	Tentative	MD-SAL OVSDB crud operations

Expected Dependencies on Other Projects

Providing Project	Deliverable Name	Needed By	Acknowledged?	Description
controller	features	M3	No	basic controller features
odlparent	features	M3	No	odlparent values
openflowplugin	features	M3	No	flow programming and extensions
yangtools	features	M3	No	yangtools for compiling yang

Expected Incompatibilities with Other Projects

OVSDB is considered incompatible with applications that program the flow tables on vSwitches. This includes:

   GBP
   OpenDOVE
   VTN

These projects have not held discussions as to how to become compatible because they each provide their own solution to the same problem.

Compatibility with Previous Releases

Removed APIs and/or Functionality

The BridgeDomain APIs are removed since they were deprecated in Helium. The APIs were not used.

Deprecated APIs and/or Functionality

The OVSDB northbound API might be depreciated depending on the outcome of the AD-SAL deprecation. The APIs currently use some AD-SAl dependencies.

Changed APIs and/or Functionality

Themes and Priorities

Increasing unit and integration test coverage to improve code quality
Deprecate AD-SAL dependencies
Provide an MD-SAL interface to OVSDB for crud operations

Requests from Other Projects

Active Requests

Requesting Project: VPN Service
Providing Project: OVSDB
Requested Deliverable Name: OVSDB interface
Needed Milestone:
Requested Deliverable Description: We only require the ability to query and instantiate non-OpenFlow information such as ports, bridges, tunnels etc.
Response:
- Description:
- Resources From:
- Link to Section in Requesting Project Release Plan:
- Link to Section in Providing Project Release Plan:
Negotiation:

Requesting Project: VTN
Providing Project: OVSDB
Requested Deliverable Name: OVSDB interface
Needed Milestone:
Requested Deliverable Description: We only require the ability to query and instantiate non-OpenFlow information such as ports, bridges, tunnels etc. We prefer the existing OVSDB plugin OVSDBInventoryListener interface and not an md-sal interface due to time constraints.
Response:
- Description:
- Resources From:
- Link to Section in Requesting Project Release Plan:
- Link to Section in Providing Project Release Plan:
Negotiation:

Requesting Project: SFC (https://lists.opendaylight.org/pipermail/sfc-dev/2015-January/000659.html)
Providing Project: OVSDB
Requested Deliverable Name: MD-SAL OVSDB
Needed Milestone: M2
Requested Deliverable Description: Working MD-SAL OVSDB SB plugin for communicating SFC information to the node. Independent of netvirt.
Response:
- Description:
- Resources From:
- Link to Section in Requesting Project Release Plan:
- Link to Section in Providing Project Release Plan:
Negotiation:

Requesting Project: GBP (https://lists.opendaylight.org/pipermail/release/2015-January/001148.html)
Providing Project: OVSDB
Requested Deliverable Name: MD-SAL OVSDB
Needed Milestone: M2
Requested Deliverable Description: Working MD-SAL OVSDB SB plugin for communicating to node independent of netvirt. We only require the ability to query and instantiate non-OpenFlow information such as ports, bridges, tunnels etc. This is probably a duplicate of the SFC request.
Response:
- Description:
- Resources From:
- Link to Section in Requesting Project Release Plan:
- Link to Section in Providing Project Release Plan:
Negotiation:

Test Tools Requirements

This project plans on using System Test (ST) inside the OpenDaylight cloud. In particular, the integration piece of OVSDB's Netvirt will require an Openstack Installation that uses ODL as the Neutron ML2. It is the goal to integrate with both Icehouse and Juno.

Update: Flaviof talked with Than and is currently convinced that the infra provided by jjb and sandbox is all that will be needed in terms of infrastructure to have automated tests on OVSDB functionality in Lithium. The plan will utilize VMs of the label 'dynamic_devstack'.

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