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
User Interface/Interaction Redesign	Chris Lumens	Fedora 17	anaconda, firstboot	Martin Gracik, Will Woods
Port to GTK3	Will Woods	Fedora 17	anaconda, firstboot
Use Size class instead of megabytes	Brian Lane	Fedora 16	anaconda
Rework current livecd support	Brian Lane	Fedora 15	anaconda, livecd-tools
Replace package selection with spin selection	TBD	TBD	anaconda
btrfs strategy	Will Woods	TBD	anaconda
Replace custom /sbin/init with standard system init	Chris Lumens	Fedora 16	anaconda
Allow users to run anaconda in kickstart generation mode	Chris Lumens	Fedora 16	anaconda, pykickstart, system-config-kickstart
Fix up text mode for serial console users	Aleš Kozumplík	TBD	anaconda
Rework backend API to allow sources other than yum	Martin Sivak	TBD	anaconda, yum (?)	Dave Lehman
Remove linuxrc.s390 and work in to standard init process	David Cantrell	Fedora 17	TBD
Support wireless networking during installation	Radek Vykydal	Fedora 16	anaconda
Support for installer networking reconfiguration (partial - stage2)	Radek Vykydal	Fedora 17	anaconda	Will Woods, mo
Support kdump setup and configuration during installation	Chris Lumens	Fedora 16	anaconda, system-config-kdump, pykickstart	David Cantrell
Add LUN discovery tool in storage UI	David Cantrell	Fedora 15	anaconda
Boot from disks >2.2TB on BIOS	Peter Jones	TBD	grub, anaconda
Trusted boot/TPM/TXT support	Peter Jones	TBD	grub
Migration to grub2 boot loader	Peter Jones	Fedora 16	anaconda, grubby, grub2	Dave Lehman, Martin Sivak
Configure s390 dump device during installation	David Cantrell	TBD	TBD	ibm
yuminstall.py cleanup	Martin Sivak	Fedora 17	anaconda, yum (?)	Chris Lumens
Run the GTK code in a thread separate from the the rest of Anaconda	Aleš Kozumplík	Fedora 18	anaconda	Will Woods
Support iSCSI Partial Offload Devices	Aleš Kozumplík	Fedora 17	anaconda, iscsi-initiator-utils
Get rid of loader	Chris Lumens	TBD	anaconda
BUG 998 (Check GPG sigs on downloaded packages)	Chris Lumens	TBD	anaconda
Use pykickstart as the data store	TBD	TBD	anaconda, pykickstart
Major version upgrade capability	TBD	TBD	anaconda
IPv6 network booting	TBD	TBD	TBD

Features from previous releases

Feature	Owner	Target completion	Committed
Rework buildinstall (Lorax)	Martin Gracik	Fedora 15	Yes
4kB Sector disk boot support	Peter Jones	Fedora 15	Yes
Support installation to disk/virt image files	Dave Lehman	Fedora 15	Yes
Finish storage testing frameworks and put to use	Chris Lumens	Fedora 15	Yes
Network installation on IPv6-only networks	Radek Vykydal	Fedora 15	Yes
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
Support installation to iSCSI via separate NIC	Radek Vykydal	Fedora 15	Yes
Support firstboot on s390	Martin Gracik	Fedora 15	Yes
Finish up unit test framework	Martin Sivak	Fedora 14	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
Encrypted Boot IPA key Management	Dave Lehman	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
Make VNC options more accessible	Martin Sivak	TBD	Yes