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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

Just to clear up some things... Yes the deadline has passed, however one of the options discussed on IRC was to turn over .pirate to me in the event of missing the dealine -- and since its really my fault that .pirate is not quite ready to go, it's pointless to hold Travis responsible.

As I mentioned in my other thread, I'm sorry I didn't make more of a point of keeping the mailing list informed.  So instead of writing code, here I sit spending an hour reading a mailing list that has blown up and writing emails to explain a situation which has been in discussion on IRC for the past month.

For those who missed it, some relevant information regarding the new registrar code base...
* All data is stored within LDAP.  There is some redundancy (we are working on more servers) and daily recursive backups.  All user accounts are within the same LDAP database (the accounts you create from the opennic members page).
* Having multiple storage points and backups ensures that no single person is responsible for maintaining data integrity.  We will not have a TLD lost due to a faulty server or database.  We will not lose the information from any TLDs using this system due to an administrator deciding they are just going to abandon opennic.  We also will not have an entire TLD rely on a single website or admin for access -- any user can register and administer domains that are stored within LDAP from any of the registrar pages using the code.

This is going to be a huge step forward for opennic as a whole, as we are finally able to start tying together registrations to multiple TLDs and eliminating single-points-of-failure in the system.  However there will be some growing pains.  The entire system has been written completely from scratch.  I've put a lot of work into trying to make it self-healing so that bad data does not corrupt a TLD zone file, but there's still a lot of work to finish.  I also need to complete the code for expiring old domains and sending out warning emails.  The last part is the code which generates standard zone files from the LDAP database -- this part appears to be working wonderfully (although again it could use more error-checking), and will check for and generate appropriate files for each TLD every minute of the day (instead of the 10-15 minute increments that most of us have been using).  Users should love this as we will have very little delay in getting out zone updates.

Anyway, I hope everyone will have a little more patience... We are almost ready for release, but we're not making a big fuss about it because we want to start slowly with the new code and be able to fix any problems as they occur.  And if you've every written code, you KNOW there will be some bugs to shake out.

On 04/05/2014 02:33 PM, Peter Green wrote:

but Julian has been kept in the loop with our progress.

Shame the rest of us weren't...

Either way, in my opinion the deadline set at 01/04 was way long enough
given the months and months running up to setting that deadline, it's
just ridiculous!

And why set a deadline, agree to meet it and then just stretch it out
yet again? Are there going to be more delays?

This is a joke, but not a very funny one.

Peter

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