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 from PyGTK to PyGI |
Will Woods |
Fedora 17 |
anaconda, firstboot |
|
| Use Size class instead of megabytes |
Fedora 16 |
Brian Lane |
anaconda |
|
| Rework current livecd support |
Brian Lane |
Fedora 15 |
anaconda, livecd-tools
|
| Replace package selection with spin selection |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| btrfs strategy |
TBD |
Will Woods |
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 |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| Rework backend API to allow sources other than yum |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda, yum (?) |
|
| Remove linuxrc.s390 and work in to standard init process |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
|
| Network installation on IPv6-only networks |
Radek Vykydal |
Fedora 15 |
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 |
anaconda |
|
| 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 |
|
| Migration to grub2 boot loader |
Peter Jones |
TBD |
grub, anaconda |
|
| Support 4K logical sector sizes on BIOS |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
|
| Configure s390 dump device during installation |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
|
| yuminstall.py cleanup |
TBD |
Fedora 17 |
anaconda, yum (?) |
Chris Lumens
|
| 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 |
|
| Get rid of loader |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| Use pykickstart as the data store |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda, pykickstart |
|
| Major version upgrade capability |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
Features from previous releases
