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

[drago01]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Gianluca Sforna <giallu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:33 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> 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:
>>>> 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'm not happy with the outcome either, but as a developer I can really
> see how bringing forward the old ui (which would need changes even if
> you do not add features there) and the new one at the same time would
> be impractical and/or plain impossible to do.

That's nonsense see the other mail. Would it be more work to maintain
two branches? Sure. Impossible? *NO*. Even if it delays newui to F20
so be it.
If we don't have the resources to do something we should not pretend
that we have (we are currently seeing where this leads to).