[bind10-dev] Migration of configuration

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Wed, 29 May 2013 14:19:18 +0200,
Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner at nic.cz> wrote:

> Once again with #2911, there'll be incompatibility in configuration that may
> need the user to manually edit the JSON config file. I believe it is high time
> we do something about this in generic manner, since there'll be no end of these.
> 
> I have two proposals.
> 
> Pretty-print the JSON file
[...]
> Having migration scripts

> Does it make sense to schedule at least some of that to some near sprint? The
> first one (the pretty-printing) could possibly be adding the correct parameter
> to the JSON dumper.

I think the first one is worth doing soonish.

As for the second, while I do not necessarily oppose to the specific
idea, I'd first consider this at a higher level, i.e., how/whether
users should handle configuration changes.  It might be some way of
automatic conversion or it may be okay to ask them to fix.  There can
be some middleground, of course, and it's quite possible that it may
not be "one policy fits all cases".  On clarifying these, we can then
discuss how to do that.  I guess these will be part of configuration
overhaul.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
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