[bind10-dev] BIND 10: Y2 intermediate releases milestones (proposal)

[Shane Kerr]

All,

Our 6-month milestones are on the Wiki here:

https://bind10.isc.org/wiki/Year2Milestones

I have been told to do more work defining the intermediate milestones,
so here I go.

After the release next week, I propose 3 more releases in the first half
of Y2, on the following dates:

2010-07-01
2010-08-12
2010-09-17

For each release, I propose the following intermediate milestones:

2010-07-01: The Cha-Cha-Changes to the Data Source Release
        We implement a writable data source! Also, we begin our
        optimization work and our recursive work.

      * Implement the read/write data source API in C++ for SQLite
      * Document how stats are collected (ticket #170), plus begin
        implementation (ticket #191)
      * Publish the documentation guidelines for each module
      * Benchmarks
              * Authoritative benchmarks setup & published automatically
              * Recursive benchmark setup designed & implementation
                begun
              * Profiling automated & set up
      * Recursive architecture & design
              * Benchmark passing packets between processes
              * Dispatch (BIND 9 sense) implemented
              * Design DNS cache
      * Python logging framework implemented, used by some modules
      * msgq: JSON conversion
      * Secondary Manager
      * PrivilegedSocket

2010-08-12: The I Can't Believe It's Not SQLite3 Release
        Our first non-SQLite3 back end: Berkeley Database.

      * Berkeley Database data source
      * Improve the read/write data source, plus implement the Python
        API
      * Add tests to get 80% coverage for all modules
      * Python logging framework used by all modules
      * C++ logging framework implemented, used by some modules
      * Recursive server: document classes & interactions
      * Optimize hot-spot caching

2010-09-17: 
        Our first "major" milestone: Y2 after 6 months!
        
      * xfrin and loadzone use read/write data source
      * Publish statistics via bindctl
      * All modules documented according to our guidelines
      * All modules using logging framework
      * Bug fixes

The July release is much heavier than the following two - we'll need to
discuss what actually goes in the release on our 2010-07-06 conference
call, since these goals may be a bit aggressive. I intentionally put
more work at the beginning so that if we need to push something it won't
go past our 6-month milestone!

This doesn't cover everything - we'll need to make some decisions about
whether caching will give us enough performance or if we need an
in-memory database for example, and we need to think about IXFR and
DDNS, and we need to look at the Python 2 vs. Python 3 issue, but these
bullet points hopefully cover the important tasks.

Anyway, please comment on-list, and we will discuss it in a couple of
weeks.

--
Shane