Processes before submitting a blueprint

  1. The TSC is deciding on high level what is the use case and hardware

    or software features that will go into a specific release. Any blueprint that is targeting that specific release but doesn’t fit under the prioritized use case and features will be either rejected or marked as “For future release”

  2. Provided the blueprint matches the release, or is submitted for TSC’s future consideration the BP submitter will have to consult the guidelines below and submit the required documentation in the launchpad.

  3. There will be two buckets:

    1. One for the current (say N) release

    2. A backlog which is the bucket for future releases. The TSC is

      advised to review this bucket when planning for an upcoming release (say release N+1).

  4. There will also be a deadline, announced at the beginning of a

    release cycle (N) by which BPs targeting this release will be accepted. Anything submitted past that deadline will automatically be moved to the backlog for the upcoming releases unless the author appeals by email to ARB. If the ARB accepts their submission it will be included for this release.

  5. For the accepted BPs, the ARB will have a regular meeting (bi-weekly)

    and assign reviewers to BPs. When the reviewers have read offline the BP they will need to invite the submitter to the ARB regular meeting and ask them to briefly justify their submission and answer any questions the ARB member will have. The reviewer who is assigned to that particular BP will be leading the ARB discussion and has power to give a +2 or -2, but it is appropriate to have support from the rest of the ARB members in order to do so.

Blueprint Submission

Blueprint submission is a two step process.

  1. Submit a blueprint providing high level overview of the feature (or

    enhancement) proposed. The blueprint is submitted athttps://github.com/OpenSDN-io/tf-specs/ . This blueprint must have a link to the full specifications of the feature (or enhancement).

At a minimum, the blueprint must have the following fields filled:

  • Assignee

  • Milestone Targeted

  1. Submit full specification of the feature (or enhancement) in details.

    This specification must be submitted at https://github.com/OpenSDN-io/tf-specs/ . This specification must be submitted in Markdown format (file with .md extension).

EULA is necessary for submitting a spec file.

An MD file is a text file which is created using dialects of Markdown language. All specification files reside athttps://github.com/OpenSDN-io/tf-specs/ . Full details of the feature must be provided in order for the feature to be considered by ARB. Take a look at any of the specs present at the above mentioned github repo and ensure that you fill in all of the fields of the spec to be considered. Here is an example of specification using MD file -https://github.com/OpenSDN-io/tf-specs/blob/master/ironic_contrail.md

Launchpad

Please go tohttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/opencontrailand register a blueprint. The fields on the page are explained here:

Status: This field is auto-updated

Priority: Default for all TSC reviewed blueprints will be Medium until further notice

Direction: “Approved” = TSC approved the blueprint after discussion on one of the weekly calls

Definition: “Approved” = spec file merged in Gerrit, “Pending Approval” = at least one +1 but not merged yet, “Review” = a spec file exists in Gerrit

Milestone target: Currently “5.0-featurefreeze” for all TSC approved blueprints. Need further discussion of whether we need additional milestones such as codefreeze.

Approver: The designated member of the ARB who is responsible for merging the spec in Gerrit after appropriate review time

Drafter: The author of the spec in Gerrit

Assignee: The developer who is writing the code, probably should be the same as Drafter in most cases

Series goal: Currently 5.0. This will probably always be the next upcoming release unless it is determined that a blueprint will miss the release and needs to be bumped out.

Implementation: The assignee’s subjective opinion on how far along they are on writing the code (not the spec or blueprint, but the actual implementation code)

Related bugs: Should be linked to a Launchpad bug because Gerrit automatically updates Launchpad bugs but does not automatically update Launchpad blueprints

Spec

Specs must be submitted intohttps://github.com/OpenSDN-io/tf-specs/ . Make sure first you have a Gerrit account. Once the account is in place here is the command line needed to do push your spec file for review:

git clone https://github.com/OpenSDN-io/tf-specs/

cd contrail-specs/5.0

Create the spec file here (spec filename should have a .md extension)

Edit your spec in a text editor. Please hard wrap lines to somewhere around 80 characters for ease of reviewing on the Gerrit side-by-side diff view. Consult a markdown cheatsheet such as https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntaxor similar. After finishing your editing, run:

git checkout -b <your spec short name> (optional, but this will show up
in Gerrit as "Topic" and is not a bad idea to do)

git add <insert your spec filename here>

git commit (write a good commit message and make sure to include a
line "Partial-bug: #<your Launchpad bug ID>"

git remote add gerrit ssh://<your gerrit
username>@review.opencontrail.org:29418/Juniper/contrail-specs.git
(this is needed once)

git review

If all goes well, the git review command should output a URL to https://review.opencontrail.orgfor your newly created spec.

Code Submission

  1. Initially any submitter will need to sign the appropriate CLA.

  2. Submission of code patch(set) needs to be done into

    review.opencontrail.org.

    1. Patch(set) must compile cleanly. By “cleanly” we mean depending on

      which repo the patch(set) targets, some repos allow warnings some don’t.

    2. Unitests for that patch(set) need to have been ran successfully.

  3. Together with patch(set) submission unitest code needs to be

    submitted as well with guidelines how CI can invoke those unitests provided the submission is about a feature.

  4. For bug fixes unitests are highly desired but is not a hard

    requirement when this unitest is a complicated test (such as race conditions).

Test plan Submission

  1. Possibly for CI test plan submission we *must* have code +

    documentation.

  2. For “individual tests” just documentation is ok although we prefer

    code to come with it.