Extend the Agama 7 release announcement

_posts/2023-12-21-agama-7.md → _posts/2023-12-22-agama-7.md

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-date: 2023-12-21 12:00:00 +00:00
+date: 2023-12-22 09:00:00 +00:00
 title: Announcing Agama 7
 description: Year 2023 comes to an end with a new version of our next-generation installer
-permalink: blog/2023-12-21/agama7
+permalink: blog/2023-12-22/agama7
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 - Project
 - Programming
@@ -71,36 +71,71 @@ can use the very same testing image to install both openSUSE Tumbleweed and open
 
 ## First Step to Simplify Selection of Software {#patterns}
 
-TO BE WRITTEN
+In Agama 5 we introduced a software patterns selector to allow the user to customize, to some
+extent, which software to install. It was just a prototype but it unveiled some troubles:
 
-Show curated list of patterns for each product (early preview, first step)
+* There are way too many patterns and it is easy to get lost.
+* As some products share the same repositories (i.e., Tumbleweed and MicroOS), you might end up
+  mixing patterns from both products.
 
-## Registration Support {#registration}
+In order to mitigate those problems, we decided to display a curated list of patterns for each
+product. However, the current implementation is still a prototype, as we plan to add refine the
+approach and add more features, like proper conflict handling.
 
-TO BE WRITTEN
+## Registration Support {#registration}
 
-As you may know, some products SUSE Customer Center.
-Both Web UI and CLI (auto-installation)
+As you may know, some SUSE products are expected to be registered in the SUSE Customer Center using
+a product key. However, Agama had zero support for that use case until now. It is noteworthy to
+mention that this feature is available in the web user interface and in the unattended installation.
+So if you have a product key, feel free to give it a try.
 
 ## More Customization Options {#storage}
 
-TO BE WRITTEN
+The storage area got its share of regular enhancements too. The first obvious improvememnt is that
+you can tell Agama how to make space to install the system. Do you want to remove the current
+content and use the whole disk? Or do you prefer to shrink existing partitions to make space? Or
+would you like to use only the available space? We expect these options to cover most of the use
+cases, although we plan to add support for a more fine-grained approach in the future.
+
+Another important change in the storage area is allowing the user to select the file system for each
+mount point. It includes to enable or disable snapshots if you want to use Btrfs.
 
-Select filesystem type (including snapshots)
-Policy to make space
+## Network Bonding {#bond}
 
-## Other Improvements
+The network configuration is one of the areas we want to focus in the short-term. Until now, Agama
+only supports simple use cases over wired and wireless devices. However, we are aware that it is
+rather limited if you plan to use some network-based storage device to install the system (e.g.,
+`iSCSI`).
+
+For that reason, in close collaboration with our network experts at SUSE, we are adding support for
+more scenarios. In this release, you can set up a bonding connection, although this feature is
+limited by now to the unattended installation case. The example below shows how to define the
+connection.
+
+```
+{
+  id: "Bonding Connection 1",
+  interface: "bond",
+  bond: {
+      ports: ["eth0", "eth1"],
+      mode: "active-backup",
+      options: "primary=eth1"
+
+  }
+}
+```
 
-TO BE WRITTEN
+## Other Improvements {#other}
 
-Preserve installation logs
-Improvements in internationalization (some messages were not translatable)
-Accesibility improvements in the web UI (by adding aria-label, aria-live-region and aria-busy attributes
-Support for network bonding
+* Preserve the installation logs for easier error reporting and debugging.
+* Make possible to translate the messages in the installation progress screen. Our awesome team of
+translators is already working on them.
+* Several accessibility improvements in the web user interface by adding `aria-label`,
+`aria-live-region` and `aria-busy` attributes where needed.
 
 ## The Year of Agama {#future}
 
-Agama 7 is the first protype we could consider to be "functional enough". It finally covers all the
+Agama 7 is the first prototype we could consider to be "functional enough". It finally covers all the
 areas we consider as essencial during the installation of the system: localization, network
 configuration, storage setup, authentication basis (including the optional creation of a first user)
 and an intentionally simplistic selection of the software to install.