Anaconda/Features

Anaconda Features

There are a lot of things being worked on within anaconda at any given time. We're trying to do a better job of keeping track of what's being worked on, requested, or planned to be worked on. Some of these aren't currently being worked or driven by anyone. If you're interested in one of these features, we encourage you to work up a basic design (or the start of some code) and send it to anaconda-devel-list@redhat.com for review and comment. If you want to work on something not listed here, the same is true

Proposed / In-Progress Features

Feature	Owner	Target completion	Components	Additional Developers
Rework buildinstall (Lorax)	Martin Gracik	Fedora 15	anaconda, pungi, lorax
4kB Sector disk boot support	Peter Jones	Fedora 15	efibootmgr, grub
User Interface/Interaction Redesign	Chris Lumens	TBD	anaconda	Martin Gracik
Major version upgrade capability	TBD	TBD	anaconda
Support installation to disk/virt image files	Dave Lehman	Fedora 15	anaconda
Rework current livecd support	Brian Lane	Fedora 15	anaconda, livecd-tools
Finish storage testing frameworks and put to use	Chris Lumens	TBD	anaconda, autoqa
Finish up unit tests where applicable	TBD	TBD	TBD
Replace package selection with spin selection	TBD	TBD	TBD
Add full btrfs support	TBD	TBD	TBD
Replace custom /sbin/init with standard system init	TBD	TBD	TBD
Allow users to run anaconda in kickstart generation mode	TBD	TBD	TBD
Fix up text mode for serial console users	TBD	TBD	TBD
Rework backend API to allow sources other than yum	TBD	TBD	TBD
Remove linuxrc.s390 and work in to standard init process	TBD	TBD	TBD
Network installation on IPv6-only networks	Radek Vykydal	TBD	anaconda
Support wireless networking during installation	Radek Vykydal	TBD	anaconda
Support for installer networking reconfiguration (partial - stage2)	Radek Vykydal	TBD	anaconda
Support installation to iSCSI via separate NIC	Radek Vykydal	TBD	anaconda
Support kdump setup and configuration during installation	TBD	TBD	TBD
Add LUN discovery tool in storage UI	David Cantrell	Fedora 15	anaconda
Support firstboot on s390	Martin Gracik	Fedora 15	firstboot
Boot from disks >2.2TB on BIOS	TBD	TBD	TBD
Trusted boot/TPM/TXT support	Peter Jones	TBD	TBD
Support 4K logical sector sizes on BIOS	TBD	TBD	TBD
Configure s390 dump device during installation	TBD	TBD	TBD
yuminstall.py cleanup	Chris Lumens	Fedora 17	TBD
Encrypted Boot IPA key Management	Dave Lehman	Fedora 13	anaconda	Miloslav Trmac
Make EDD code more usable	Peter Jones	TBD	TBD
Make VNC options more accessible	Martin Sivak	TBD	TBD
Run the GTK code in a thread separate from the the rest of Anaconda	Aleš Kozumplík	TBD	anaconda
Support iSCSI Partial Offload Devices	Aleš Kozumplík	TBD	anaconda, iscsi-initiator-utils

Features from previous releases

Feature	Owner	Target completion	Committed
Combine initrd.img and install.img in to single image	Chris Lumens	Fedora 15	Yes
Warn users if installing on unsupported hardware	Chris Lumens	Fedora 15	Yes
UI Cleanup for storage	Joel Granados	Fedora 13	Yes
UEFI boot	Peter Jones	Fedora 13	Yes
Multipath devices	Peter Jones	Fedora 13	Yes
Default partition and swap algorithm BZ 150670, 435402	Chris Lumens	Fedora 13	Yes
Select devices better, plus storage cleanup	Chris Lumens	Fedora 13	Yes
FCoE Boot support	Hans DeGoede	Fedora 12	Yes
MDRaid Boot support	Hans DeGoede	Fedora 12	Yes
Land new pyparted and port anaconda to it	David Cantrell	Fedora 11	Yes
Simplify text mode	Chris Lumens	Fedora 11	Yes
Replace partitioning code - Storage Rewrite	Dave Lehman	Fedora 11	Yes
FirstAidKit (Improving Rescue Mode)	Joel Granados / Martin Sivak	Fedora 10	Yes
Improved netconfig UI with NetworkManager by default	David Cantrell	Fedora 10	Yes
Save exceptions straight to bugzilla	Chris Lumens	Fedora 10	Yes
Support for installation to encrypted block devices	Dave Lehman	Fedora 9	Yes
Allow setting the install source from the second stage	Chris Lumens	Fedora 9	Yes
Implement support for resizing partitions	Jeremy Katz	Fedora 9	Yes
Allow download of packages for upgrade prior to rebooting into anaconda	Jeremy Katz / Seth Vidal	Fedora 9	Yes
Use libblkid for filesystem probing	Jeremy Katz	Fedora 9	Yes
Stop using kudzu for probing	Bill Nottingham	Fedora 9	Yes