From e8e014ada90902f3c34a71193647c5ab81c4e892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miek Gieben Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:03:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Address Jon's comments --- proposals/coredns.adoc | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/proposals/coredns.adoc b/proposals/coredns.adoc index 652c711..e190c17 100644 --- a/proposals/coredns.adoc +++ b/proposals/coredns.adoc @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ *Description* -CoreDNS is a fast, flexible DNS server that is designed to be performant with a flexible implementation. This flexibility allows CoreDNS to be easily extended to support various data sources and to implement rich DNS service behaviors. For example, response caching, query rewrite, load-balancing, zone transfer and signing. +CoreDNS is a fast, flexible DNS server that is designed to be performant with a flexible implementation. This flexibility allows CoreDNS to be easily extended to support various data sources and to implement rich DNS service behaviors: for example, response caching, query rewrite, load-balancing, zone transfer and signing. CoreDNS is the successor of SkyDNS. SkyDNS is a DNS server that has etcd as the datastore backend. It is widely used in cloud deployments, but lacks the flexibility we envision for CoreDNS. @@ -31,12 +31,20 @@ used in cloud deployments, but lacks the flexibility we envision for CoreDNS. *Website*: https://coredns.io -*Release methodology and mechanics*: github master +*Release methodology and mechanics*: github master. As as young project no method for official releases has been +established. The current rule is: the master branch is production ready at all times. A more formal release +process is on its way, the choice to use semver versioning has not yet been made. Precompiled binaries will be +created by hooking into Caddy's website: https://caddyservers.com where "DNS" will be a download option. *Social media accounts*: Twitter: @corednsio *Existing sponsorship*: Infoblox contributing developer time to implement CoreDNS->Kubernetes integration component. +*Existing community*: The community is small, but growing. Current number of twitter following is 100+ (after a +week of having the twitter account). By aligning ourselves with the Caddy community we hope to leverage Caddy's +popularity for CoreDNS. By positioning CoreDNS as a better SkyDNS we hope to entice user of SkyDNS to embrace +CoreDNS. + *External Dependencies* CoreDNS has a hard dependency on Caddy (mholt/caddy), as CoreDNS is a servertype-plugin to it. Technically this