dnsmanager-webclient/TODO.md

Code structure

The Bulma module should be removed. The actual Bulma-related code should be in the package purescript-bulma, which currently lacks some features. The general style of the website should be in a module.

Modules should have their own specific API. When a module currently requires to send messages, the API should reflect semantics instead of providing the module a way to just carry raw messages. For example, there are currently modules able to send messages (with a very simple MessageToSend message API), but instead of dealing with raw messages that need to be built inside the module, the API should be more semantic such as ChangePassword new-password.

Once modules will have specific APIs, the entire state of the application could be moved into a single module (or component) so every state modification can be handled in a single place.

Minor modifications:

• split App.Zone to improve compilation times
• explanations and static content in general should be written using some kind of templates, not directly in Halogen

Features

About zone records:

• allow '*' in record names
• allow '@' in record names (replaced by the fqdn, the "root" domain, such as "example.netlib.re.")
• enable to change NS records, but after a accepting the consequences

About the admin interface:

• enable administrators to ask for users' info and show zones
• perform a few more administrative operations (TBD)

Slightly more complex features to implement:

• zone-wise indications to help people configure their zone for specific uses (web, mail)

Tests

Check for common errors:

• nodes with both a CNAME and another RR
• verify that SPF mechanisms point to available records

More specialized tests or debug options:

• verify the length of received messages in App.Message.IPC
• MAYBE: run named-checkzone on the genetared zone and provide the result in case of an error

Display

• say that there is no IPv6 on the server at the moment, so there is no point doing IPv6 address updates
• admin interface: basically just rewrite the whole thing, it's a mess

Details:

• maybe notifications should disappear after a few seconds
• hide logs by default?

General note

The code should be reviewed and a decent documentation should be provided.

Right now, the code is still in a somewhat early stage and multiple refactoring should take place. For example, modules have a very generic API; they can provide or receive messages from (respectively to) authd or dnsmanagerd. Instead, modules should have a more specific API and not deal with message encoding at all. Furthermore, maybe the state of the entire application should be stored in a single module, with a single function handling all state modifications when a message is received, enabling a simpler data management.

TODO in authd and dnsmanagerd

• enable users to change their NS
• MIGRATION-related: remove migrated accounts with no connection in over 6 months