survey: BIND Community Edition

[Loganaden Velvindron]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Paul Vixie <vixie at isc.org> wrote:

> Should ISC create a "community edition" of BIND?
>
> According to the ISC Domain Survey, BIND9 is the most popular DNS
> implementation by far. To me this says we're doing a lot that's right.
> I've heard from many BIND Workers over the years that we could do more
> -- specifically, that we could be more open.
>
> ISC's "managed open source" model means there are no non-contracted
> committers. Every patch we receive from an outside contributor is
> subject to the same QA and Release Engineering process as ISC's own
> internal work. This has meant delay in many cases before a code
> contribution from outside ISC was released as part of BIND. We have also
> rejected some contributions when they did not fit into our roadmap.
>
> This raises the question: should there be a community edition of BIND? I
> envision it as being hosted at ISC but having its own "core team" and
> having both ISC and non-ISC committers. I can imagine this version being
> available as an installable package on Linux and BSD, and perhaps even
> becoming the default for some OS distributions. It could be a proving
> ground for features that eventually landed in the main BIND
> distribution. Sort of like Fedora is to RHEL.
>
> My survey questions are:
>
> 1. would you like, or not like, to see a "community edition" of BIND,
> and why (or why not)?
> 2. would you run or distribute such a thing in preference to "BIND
> itself", and why (or why not)?
> 3. would you join such an effort, either as a committer or as an
> organizer, and how would you contribute?
>
> Feel free to reply to me directly, or to reply-all and include this
> mailing list. Either way I will summarize the results.
>
>
That's an excellent idea ! A community edition would have features
that people would urgently need and can support themselves. I'd like
to see RRL integrated as soon as possible, and having a community
distribution
would help test intrusive changes like RRL, and benefit ISC in terms of
testing
coverage and offering support contract for organizations who need RRL
deployed efficiently
but don't have in-house expertise or just prefer to rely on ISC as their
DNS vendor solution.

//Logan
C-x-C-c


Paul
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