Exploring Agama's 2024 roadmap (openSUSE News)

[Posted February 16, 2024 by jzb]

The openSUSE News blog looks at the roadmap for Agama (a new installer from the YaST development team) with releases planned for April and July:

The milestone in April is set to revolutionize Agama’s architecture. It will be moving away from its reliance on Cockpit toward a more autonomous framework that is coupled with a refined user interface that aims to streamline storage configurations.
The aim of the second milestone is to improve Agama’s flexibility and capabilities for unattended installations, which seeks to position Agama as a formidable alternative to AutoYaST.

The Agama page explains why YaST is due for replacement.

Exploring Agama's 2024 roadmap (openSUSE News)

Posted Feb 18, 2024 14:59 UTC (Sun) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] (1 responses)

The move away from Cockpit is interesting, given Anaconda (the installer, not the Python distribution!) is moving towards replacing key components with it

Exploring Agama's 2024 roadmap (openSUSE News)

Posted Feb 19, 2024 16:11 UTC (Mon) by sub2LWN (subscriber, #134200) [Link]

Digging into a couple levels of blog post, this has more technical details: https://github.com/openSUSE/agama/discussions/1000

From the YaST blog: "See more details at this Github discussion, but in short we concluded the small of amount of functionality we are getting out of Cockpit does not justify the strong dependency, especially now that Cockpit is adopting Python as an integral part of its runtime."

Someone from Red Hat also stopped by there to mention the Anaconda case (the installer, not the 1997 horror film): https://github.com/openSUSE/agama/discussions/1000#discus...