Re: One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

>> the anaconda storage is very buggy since fc11 beta 2
>>
>> this really need's to be fixed.
>
> That's...not a very useful statement. It's been buggy ever since it was
> *completely rewritten* for the Fedora 11 cycle. Both the Anaconda
> developers and the QA team are perfectly well aware of this; rewriting
> such a fundamental chunk of code is _always_ going to introduce new
> bugs, we knew this before the project was ever initiated. But we still
> needed to rewrite the code, so there was nothing else to do.
>
> Just saying "it's buggy, fix it!" doesn't help anyone. We know it's
> buggy. We're working very hard on fixing it. Constructive input would be
> one of:

I agree to a point. It seems to me on a number of occasions over the
history of Fedora anaconda has been the reason for release slips. I
reported a number of bugs (or added my details to a number of bugs)
for custom disk installations and even though they've been reported
(beta or even alpha stage) they're still not fixed.

Anaconda definitely needs massive re-writes but I would expect that to
land by the alpha rather than having pretty decent fixes still coming
in after the preview release and hence the delays that have come with
that. Not reporting fairly major bugs in the beta and still not having
them closed now having read comments like "custom installs to single
partitions aren't normal use cases".

Peter