On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 7:28 PM Brian C. Lane <bcl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Today we created a new, permanent, location for pykickstart: > > https://github.com/pykickstart/pykickstart/ > > And I've agreed to be the new maintainer. I've been involved with > Anaconda and pykickstart since I joined Red Hat in 2010 so this isn't a > new experience for me :) > > My general philosophy for this is going to be "don't break it". I > consider pykickstart to be one of the best examples of how to write a > python library, especially one that has to support so many different > features and versions so I have no plans to make fundamental changes. I > consider it primarily to be in maintenance mode, driven by bugfixing and > requests from Anaconda. > > Recently there have been some requests to add features to pyks for the > livecd-creator project that don't have (and never will) support in > Anaconda. I've been trying to come up with a way to make everyone happy > -- and haven't. > As livecd-tools maintainer/developer, I don't particularly want grammar that doesn't work with Anaconda either. The whole *point* of livecd-tools is to be able to work off an installation description to produce media *without* requiring Anaconda. But I personally would not want to forsake compatibility with Anaconda. > At the moment I think the best way to proceed is to require that new > features need to have patches, and be accepted by, Anaconda. Anything > else is just going to lead to a fractured user experience, confusing > documentation, difficult to debug problems, etc. Since Anaconda is the > primary user for pyks it makes practical sense to have the installer > team's input on new features. > If you only care about Anaconda's requirements, why isn't this just part of the rhinstaller group like the rest of the Anaconda-only components? > I also will *not* be re-reviewing any old closed requests. If the > previous maintainers declined to add something I am not going to re-open > it. > This seems a bit harsh. Even if all the other requirements are satisfied? What about if there was no information about why it was closed? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
