From 30479a1190b2f1c2526301fd63182481b1dd6ad8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:36:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update ROADMAP for 1.12 and beyond. --- ROADMAP | 30 ++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/ROADMAP b/ROADMAP index 8059890..77d814d 100644 --- a/ROADMAP +++ b/ROADMAP @@ -12,25 +12,18 @@ Before you read this: (4) For general "might be good to have" items, see 'TODO'. -For next major stable release (1.10) +For next major stable release (1.12) ------------------------------------ -* Continue with general reduction in use of Perl. This is not because - we think Perl is a bad thing or anything like that, but because a - major consumer (RHEV) does not want to include the Perl interpreter - in the tiny hypervisor they ship, thus any tool written in or - requiring Perl cannot be used by RHEV. OCaml and other high-level - compiled languages are fine. For 1.8 we rewrote many tools in C. - * Make 'guestfish --ro' be the default, and get users to use 'guestfish --rw' for write access (but allow the default to be overridden in a configuration file). This was originally planned - for 1.8 but there's not nearly enough adoption of the new 'guestfish - --rw' option out there to do this yet. + for 1.10 but there's not nearly enough adoption of the new + 'guestfish --rw' option out there to do this yet. * Allow alternate methods to start the appliance, including through libvirt and by connecting to an existing appliance. This was - originally planned for 1.8 but we didn't get patches in time. + originally planned for 1.10 but we didn't get patches in time. * Deeper and wider support for progress messages. Many long-running operations in guestfs-browser don't display progress messages, eg. @@ -43,15 +36,20 @@ For next major stable release (1.10) GtkProgressBar supports a "pulse mode" where it indicates activity with no time estimate, and we should try to support that as well. -* Better handling of partitions, including MBR extended partitions - (RHBZ#593511, RHBZ#602997, RHBZ#642821). +* Better handling of partitions, including MBR extended partitions. + Write a new partition handling library to replace parted, and use it + instead of parted. (RHBZ#593511, RHBZ#602997, RHBZ#642821). + +* List full details of applications in RPM-based guests. At the + moment we can only list the names of applications, whereas for dpkg- + and Windows-based guests we offer much more complete output. -Bugs assigned to 1.10 (put "1.10" in the Devel Whiteboard field in +Bugs assigned to 1.12 (put "1.12" in the Devel Whiteboard field in Bugzilla): -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_devel_whiteboard&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=POST&bug_status=PASSES_QA&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=1.10&component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization%20Tools&classification=Other +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_devel_whiteboard&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=POST&bug_status=PASSES_QA&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=1.12&component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization%20Tools&classification=Other -Beyond 1.10 +Beyond 1.12 ----------- * Hot plugging of disks using QMP. This would allow more efficient -- 1.8.3.1