Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

[Vratislav Podzimek]

On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 10:33 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Vratislav Podzimek
> <vpodzime at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 19:32 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > I'd recommend asking dcantrell, as he has some good points on this
> >> > topic. I broadly agree with him that it might well be more or less
> >> > impossible to smoothly handle a major rewrite of anaconda in our current
> >> > development process. CCing to make sure he sees this.
> >>
> >> If you are saying that 6 months are a too short time for something
> >> like this I think I can understand it.
> > 6 months are a too short time. And it was less than 6 months. As can be
> > seen from the F18 release schedule [1], originally it was about 3 months
> > between the day F17 was released and the day new Anaconda was expected
> > to work (F18 Alpha release).
> 
> Sure in that case you shouldn't have propose it for F18 to begin with
> but take your time and introduce it in F19. There is no need for this
> rush.
I don't see any advantage in that, because it would end up the same as
with F17 and F18. We don't do only changes we want to do and we come up
with. As many other packages change these changes have to be reflected
in Anaconda [1]. And that's the work that has to be done no matter we
want/need to focus on the redesign/rewrite or not.

[1] just to see what I'm talking about --
http://msivak.fedorapeople.org/anaconda-openhouse/#%285%29

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Vratislav Podzimek

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