Introduction

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

Release Deliverables

Name	Description
Code quality, stability and usability	Bug fixing, increase Sonar coverage, increase Tempest coverage
Karaf 4	Migrate a project to karaf 4
Guava migration	Modify code to use the updated guava library
Scalability and performance	Scalability and performance measurements and enhancement
CSIT	Improvements to CSIT to cover all the features supported by OVSDB and Hardware vTep
Documentation	Add more documentation to the local documentation structure created in OVSDB project

Release Milestones

Milestone

Offset 2 Date

Deliverables

M0/M1

6/14/2017

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

M2/M3/M4

7/7/2017

Name	Status	Description
Final Release Plan		Final Release Plan
Project Checklist		Project Checklist completed
OpenDaylight CI		OpenDaylight CI infrastructure usage for system test
Project acknowledgement		Controller, Yangtools, ODL Parents, MDSAL
Functionality Freeze
Karaf Features Defined
Documentation Started
Feature Test Started
API Freeze
Documentation word count
Maven Central Requirements
Feature Test Continues

M5

8/7/2017

Name	Status	Description
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

RC0

8/14/2017

Name	Status
Release Candidate 0

RC1

8/21/2017

Name	Status
Release Candidate 1

RC2

8/28/2017

Name	Status
Release Candidate 2

RC3

9/3/2017

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

Formal Release

9/7/2017

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

SR1 Release

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

SR2 Release

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

SR3 Release

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

SR4 Release

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

Externally Consumable APIs

Artefact	Status	Description
OVSDB Southbound	Stable	MD-SAL OVSDB crud operations
Hardware VTEP Southbound	Stable	MD-SAL Hardware VTEP crud operations

Expected Dependencies on Other Projects

Providing Project	Deliverable Name	Needed By	Acknowledged?	Description
controller	features	M3	No	basic controller features
mdsal	features	M3	No	mdsal features
odlparent	features	M3	No	odlparent values
yangtools	features	M3	No	yangtools 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

Deprecated APIs and/or Functionality

Changed APIs and/or Functionality

Themes and Priorities

Karaf4 migration
Guava library update
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 the 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

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