[bind10-dev] [sprint planning] ticket discussion for sprint ending 2012-12-04

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:52:06AM +0100, Jelte Jansen wrote:
> One ticket that received a few similar comments is #2455 (bind10
> parent should not exit if b10-auth exits with fatal). AFAIK, this has
> always been intentional; for 'core' and 'needed' components, bind10
> *should* stop when one of those components does (otherwise, we should
> make them 'dispensable'. And while we should fix #2457, I think even
> if we didn't, b10-auth should probably not exit on such a scenario.

I think it should not. If you start bind10 and auth crashes right away, then
yes, it should stop.

But if you add auth to the config as needed (not core) and then commit the
change, I think we should not consider it the same and not crash now.

> Another big difference is #2468 (b10-stats-httpd_test.py not
> stopping). I believe the source of confusion here is the existing
> discussion in the ticket, and some people think this ticket may have
> been solved already. (FWIW, I think the symptom has only been worked
> around, the source cause has not been addresses, but of course I may
> be wrong)

Yes, I can't really get through the discussion. I don't know if the proposed
solution did solve the problem, it was a dead end or solved something partially.
So it's hard to estimate.

> Regarding #2482 and #2485, these are both bindctl problems. Should we
> just throw them on the pile of 'needs rewrite'? (the pile is growing
> into a mountain...)

I do think so. The current bindctl is already looking as a bunch of patches and
fixes holding together only because several kilometres of duck tape and huge
amount of luck.

With regards

-- 
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because
God is not capricious or arbitrary.  No such faith comforts the software
engineer.
                -- Fred Brooks

Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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