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OVP Role Definition

• Applicant
  
  • Sends application Fills out participation form on behalf of prospective company wishing to apply for OVP
• Primary Contact
  
  • Entered in application participation form and associated with user ID / email / name entered into OVP portal back-end
  • Submits results for approval
• Administrator (or coordinator)
  • Responds to applicants, checks/enters application participation info OVP portal, project manage reviews
• Reviewer
  • Reviews test results submitted to OVP portal and votes to approve or disapprove (emails tied to cvp@opnfvverified@opnfv.org)
• User/Tester
  
  • Uses OVP portal to view/share results
• C&C Committee
  
  • Review arbitration and grants final approval
• Marketing Committee Designee
  • Following acceptance, works with company marketing on OPNFV mark usage and branding

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• OVP Portal: https://verified.opnfv.org
  • Website that allows:
    • Prospective participants to learn about governance, training, release and marketing content associated with OVP 
    • Users/testers to inspect, debug and share test results in a private fashion
    • Primary contact to officially submit test results for review   
• OVP Email: verified@opnfv.org
  • All OVP reviewers are associated to alias
  • Facilitates administrator / applicant prospective participant correspondence
  • Used by administrator to solicit volunteers from reviewer list to review results
  • Allows reviewers to vote on results with simple +1/-1 approve/disapprove notation
  • Currently being used by beta testers to correspond on issues (this may be changed in future) 
• C&C Committee Email: opnfv-cc-committee@lists.opnfv.org
  
  • Used for review arbitration and final approval correspondence

Overall OVP Workflow Steps

1. Application Participation Form Submission
2. Application Participation Confirmation
3. User Testing
4. Result Submission
5. Result Review
6. Acceptance and Marketing

Step 1 - Application Participation Form Submission

• Applicant sends email with application form attached (Text, PDF, Word) to OVP email fills out online participation form at:  
  • Participation Form
• Primary contact must login to OVP portal at least once before application participation info can be submitted to portal back-end

Step 2 - Application Participation Confirmation

• Administrator asks applicant for any clarifications or amendments to application participation form 
• Administrator enters application info participation info into OVP portal, which is associated to primary contact user ID (Linux Foundation or OpenStack) and sends response back to applicant on OVP email

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