Increasing user testing and feedback (was Re: Bad-mouthing and hostility)

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Thu Mar 11 17:17:12 UTC 2010


On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Colin Walters wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> >
> > This needs to go through the Fedora Design group.
> >
> > I'd beg to please, pretty please, don't add stuff to firstboot;
>
> And actually how the heck would this even work at a technical level?
> There's no networking in firstboot because NetworkManager isn't set
> up.
>

You'd do what smolt does and queue the request until after network is up.
But yes, firstboot isn't quite the right place for this.  Even the way
smolt does it is pretty nasty.

	-Mike


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