[bind10-dev] thoughts about next A-team sprint

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

The next sprint will effectively end at the end of next week (due to
the face to face meeting), and some of us (including myself) will be
unavailable for 1 to several days.  Considering these constraints and
looking at the current list of tasks, my opinion about priorities are:

- High priority (initial development completed, needs review/revise)
  #453 Delegation processing & Additional processing for NS
       (depends on #454 and #463)
  #454 Zone cut handling in MemoryZone
  #458 Additional processing for MX
  #463 glue OK mode of (Memory)Zone::find()
       (depends on #454)

- Middle priority (#464 waits for review; others are ongoing)
  #464 Additional processing for authoritative NS
  #461 Empty node processing in MemoryZone (easier part)
  #465 Update auth/benchmarks/query_bench

- Possible next tasks (not started yet)
  CNAME support
  AXFR out (with in memory data source)

The basic reason for the prioritization is as follows:
 - Prefer "important" tasks.  "important" means features that are
   largely expected to be available in auth servers.
 - Prefer "doable" tasks: "doable" means it's likely we complete the
   task and merge it to trunk.

In this sense, #464 is less "important' because we do not necessarily
need it for a minimally functional server.  #461 is less "important"
because it covers a relatively minor case. #465 is simply a nice thing
to have and can be optional.

I'd choose AXFR out for a next task because it's "important", and I
think it's doable.  On the other hand, I don't think AXFR-in is
"doable" for this sprint so I wouldn't consider it for this sprint.
CNAME is a relatively minor feature (not all zones need it) so less
"important", but it's still widely used and should be "doable", so I'd
consider it a possible next item, too.

I think we can complete high priority tasks by early next week.  After
that, based on our interest and consensus I propose we'll work on some
of the "middle" and "next" tasks.

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JINMEI, Tatuya