survey: BIND Community Edition

[Loganaden Velvindron]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Loganaden Velvindron
<loganaden at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Paul Vixie <vixie at isc.org> wrote:
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>> 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
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> Another reason why I think a community edition would be great is that
maybe ISC
could create/open a git repo for a community-based editions. A lot of work
is being
done on RRL, but we cannot see how it progresses, unless we look at diffs
from the different
patches. It's not a very practical solution, if people want to get learn
the code and submit patches.




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> Paul
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