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 |
Chris Lumens]] |
TBD |
anaconda, pykickstart |
|
| Major version upgrade capability |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| IPv6 network booting |
Peter Jones |
Fedora 16 |
grub, tftp server, dhcpv6 (?) |
|
| Generate locale info as needed |
Martin Sivak |
Fedora 16 |
|
Features from previous releases
