Hello BIND and DHCP users,
We have wanted to open ISC's BIND and ISC-DHCP bug database for a long time,
and now we are finally ready to do it.
As of July 7th, 2017, ISC’s internal bug database will offer read-only access
to anonymous guest users. Guest users will be able to read issues in a new
‘public issues’ queue.
We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of information previously
submitted by users with an expectation of privacy. Therefore, we are not going
to publish pre-existing issues by default. We do plan to publish some existing
issues that we think are particularly useful to users to see, such as those
resolved in our most recent releases, or significant open bugs, after first
reviewing them for confidential information. This review will happen gradually.
We would like to publish all new issues by default. Unless you specifically ask
us to keep your issue confidential, your bug reports will be published,
including your email address and any attachments submitted. We don’t want
anyone to be discouraged from reporting an issue because of a concern about
privacy: all you have to do is mention in the body of your report that you want
us to keep the report confidential, and we won’t put it into the public queue.
We will also not publish any report that we are evaluating as a potential
security vulnerability. We don’t think feature requests are likely to include
confidential information, so requests sent to bind-sugg...@isc.org or
dhcp-sugg...@isc.org will go into the public queue automatically.
You may continue to report issues via email (mailto: bind9-b...@isc.org
<mailto:bind-b...@isc.org>, or mailto: dhcp-b...@isc.org
<mailto:dhcp-b...@isc.org>) or to use the form on our web site
https://www.isc.org/community/report-bug/
<https://www.isc.org/community/report-bug/>. After July 7th, when you are able
to browse issues reported by other users, you will also be able to add your
comments, by quoting the subject header of the existing bug in your email. We
hope that this added transparency will be useful to us both in maintaining and
using these open source applications.
We are announcing this change a month ahead of the planned implementation date
to allow the user community plenty of time to think about it and give us
feedback. We will post instructions on accessing the database as we get closer
to availability.
Please let us know if you have any concerns about this, or suggestions for a
better implementation.
Vicky Risk
ISC Product Manager
PS - I posted a blog post about this too, with a bit more detail at
https://www.isc.org/blogs/bind-and-isc-dhcp-bug-db-opening-for-guest-users/
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