[bind10-dev] New components in trac

[Shane Kerr]

All,

On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 16:20 +0200, Tomasz Mrugalski wrote:
> DHCP work is progressing. The code itself has grown and we are expecting
> further chunks of code soon. Until now, we were happy with just one
> component: DHCP, but I would like to have it split into a bit finer
> grains. I propose the following components:
> 
> dhcp4 - anything related to upcoming DHCPv4 daemon (server)
> dhcp6 - anything related to existing DHCPv4 daemon (server)
> libdhcp - anything related to a libdhcp, a DHCP packet library
> perfdhcp - anything related to perfdhcp, a benchmarking/test tool that
>          is being developed
> 
> One of those components will replace existing "dhcp". Alternatively, we
> can keep dhcp as a generic dhcp-related component that does not match
> proposed classification.
> 
> That would be enough for now. If we are thinking about things that we
> will be doing in the next 6 months or so, also adding those would be
> useful as well:
> 
> dhcpdb - "dhcp data source", or "dhcp backend" for abstract storage and
>          not-so abstract SQL backend.
> dhcpconf - "dhcp configuration" will be worked on soon (around
>          December). That is for storing DHCP configuration, which
>          unfortunately is still hardcoded for now.
> 
> Not sure if we prefer short names or longer, descriptive ones.

I've created all of the proposed components in Trac, using the short
names. Hopefully that's okay - we can change this at any point if we
want to.

I have not moved any of the existing tickets - I think we can do that on
an ongoing basis.

Cheers,

--
Shane