[bind10-dev] Year 4 usability goals

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:19:51 +0100,
Shane Kerr <shane at isc.org> wrote:

> Attached please find my first pass at setting usability goals for
> BIND 10 year 4. This is intended to be the first area of work that we
> do in year 4.

Some random feedback...

- not sure if it's "usability", but I think zone/data source
  configuration is one of the most important configuration issues for
  BIND 10 to "just" work for normal users.

- again, not sure if it's really a "usability" matter, but I'd point
  out there are several things for an authoritative server to work
  reasonably:
  + propagate change to a zone after xfr to in-memory data source
  + allow replacing in-memory zone data without stopping the service;
    either by introudcing incremental loading or shmem based zone data
  + reduce memory footprint of in-memory zones

- as for time estimation, I think we all know it's generally non
  reliable (and in the vast majority of the cases it's too
  optimistic).  I wonder whether we can use the statistics of past
  sprints to make them more realistic.  For example, we should have a
  record how many days we needed for a design task (for some tickets
  we even recorded actual hours the developer (+ perhaps reviewer)
  spent for them).  Although it may not be easy to extract such data
  from trac, in theory we should have a reasonable amount of data
  based on our actual past progress.  If we could use it for future,
  longer term estimations, hopefully they can be more realistic.

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JINMEI, Tatuya