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
|
| Add LUN discovery tool in storage UI |
David Cantrell |
Fedora 15 |
anaconda |
|
| Rework current livecd support |
Brian Lane |
Fedora 17 |
anaconda, lorax (treebuilder) |
|
| Use Size class instead of megabytes |
Brian Lane |
Fedora 17 |
anaconda |
|
| Allow users to run anaconda in kickstart generation mode |
Chris Lumens |
Fedora 18 |
anaconda, pykickstart, system-config-kickstart |
|
| Support wireless networking during installation |
Radek Vykydal |
Fedora 16 |
anaconda |
|
| Support kdump setup and configuration during installation |
Chris Lumens |
Fedora 16 |
anaconda, system-config-kdump, pykickstart |
David Cantrell
|
| Migration to grub2 boot loader |
Peter Jones |
Fedora 16 |
anaconda, grubby, grub2 |
Dave Lehman, Martin Sivak, Brian Lane
|
| IPv6 network booting |
Peter Jones |
Fedora 16 |
grub, tftp server, dhcpv6 (?) |
|
| Rework dispatch |
TBD |
Fedora 16 |
anaconda |
|
| User Interface/Interaction Redesign |
Chris Lumens |
Fedora 18 |
anaconda, firstboot |
Martin Gracik, Will Woods
|
| Port to GTK3 |
Chris Lumens |
Fedora 18 |
anaconda, firstboot |
|
| Remove linuxrc.s390 and work in to standard init process |
David Cantrell |
Fedora 17 |
TBD |
|
| Support for installer networking reconfiguration (partial - stage2) |
Radek Vykydal |
Fedora 17 |
anaconda |
Will Woods, mo
|
| Support iSCSI Partial Offload Devices |
TBD |
Fedora 17 |
anaconda, iscsi-initiator-utils |
|
| Support firewalld |
TBD |
Fedora 17 |
anaconda |
|
| Run the GTK code in a thread separate from the the rest of Anaconda |
Chris Lumens |
Fedora 18 |
anaconda |
Will Woods
|
| btrfs strategy |
Will Woods |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| Fix up text mode for serial console users |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| Rework backend API to allow sources other than yum |
Will Woods, Dave Lehman |
TBD |
anaconda, yum (?) |
Dave Lehman
|
| Boot from disks >2.2TB on BIOS |
Peter Jones |
TBD |
grub, anaconda |
|
| Trusted boot/TPM/TXT support |
Peter Jones |
TBD |
grub |
|
| Configure s390 dump device during installation |
David Cantrell |
TBD |
TBD |
ibm
|
| Get rid of loader |
Will Woods |
F17 |
anaconda |
Brian Lane, Chris Lumens
|
| BUG 998 (Check GPG sigs on downloaded packages) |
Chris Lumens |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| Use pykickstart as the data store |
Chris Lumens |
Fedora 18 |
anaconda, pykickstart |
|
| Major version upgrade capability |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| Support filesystems on whole disk or PV volumes |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| Consistent EULA acceptance |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda, pykickstart, firstboot |
|
| Get user's location |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
| Install classes and package logic outside Anaconda |
TBD |
TBD |
anaconda, rel-engs |
|
| Support some level of installation to degraded RAID |
David Cantrell |
TBD |
anaconda |
|
Features from previous releases
