Topics

Wednesday

Memory Context and Memory Management
- Witold's proposal:
  1. Fail when memory can't be allocated
  2. If the initialization function fails
  3. If acquisition of other system resources fail
- Ondrej's proposal:
  1. Memory Regions
  2. Replace isc_mem with jemalloc/tcmalloc/rpmalloc if we can get the functionality elsewhere
- Discuss with library consumers whether is OK
- For BIND 9.11, we will not backport the fatality, but we will do peer review on the MRs
Task Manager / Task Replacement?
- For BIND 9.14:
  1. Optimize the recv_send loop
- For BIND 9.15:
  1. Replace the pull method with push method (subscriber model)
  2. Do the data processing in the networking thread
  3. We are not touching the Task Manager(?)
  4. TCP, DoT, DoH (?) via libevent/libuv
- Long-Term:
  1. Have event loop per thread
QA Function
- Stephen stepping down, and Curtis and Stephen joining the BIND team
- Stephen is going to do the release management
- Curtis to investigate Jenkins slave running on snapshots
- Curtis + Michal to investigate the FreeBSD and Windows builds to GitLab CI
- Investigate while DO Droplets are failing to run the tests
Build System
- For BIND 9.15:
  1. Convert to full autotools (+automake)
  2. Add meson-build for Windows (instead of custom vcx files)
- Convert documentation to sphinx
- Consider doing something with gen.c
What fate awaits libirs?
- KILL IT, move the functions we need to other libraries
DNS lookup tools: dig, mdig, delv
- Long-term:
  1. Merge dig and mdig using mdig source code
Coding style nits
- bool = ((int & mask) != 0);
- if ((int & mask) != 0)
- if (ptr != NULL)
- if (ptr == NULL)
- Uncrustify
Removing stale Git branches

Thursday

Case Preservation
- No technical reason, we can drop at any time when we need it
GitLab Speed
- Create another Vultr bare metal and test the speed on bare metal
Message Catalogs
- Kill them
Release Process / Checklist
Packaging
Subscription edition synchronization vs rebase
- Evan will try creating extra branch with rebase method
- We will create a checklist for Review process
How the subscription edition is created (the base for the -S)
- Rebasing might help here
Go through merge requests which are not labeled with Review

Friday

Education(?)
Communication
Communication Recording

Extra

Kill queryperf
Kill dnsperf