[1903] in Release_7.7_team
8/4 minutes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed Aug 4 13:52:29 1999
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 13:52:19 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199908041752.NAA136898@antharia.mit.edu>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Attending: danw, ghudson, aurora, miki, othomas, ajfox, jweiss, kcr,
rbasch, wdc, tb
1. 8.3.14
Going to the dev cell tonight, to athena Monday night.
The enscript and ftpd patches might go in.
Greg will send mail today. If he forgets to send mail Sunday night
someone should poke him.
2. inetd
Might be fixed in 8.3.14, but we're betting not.
3. Indy "ec0: carrier lost"
Bob will look into it and/or report it to SGI.
4. update.log in athinfo
We only want it for cluster machines, so Karl's patch is fine
5. docs
The release notes don't say "early" any more.
Heather will add a note about the netscape default version change.
6. athena-desktop
The athena-desktop team has declared itself to be a subcommittee of
the release-team.
We'll be using GNOME. We're prototyping the integration of GNOME into
the Athena source tree in the aui locker.
Thomas is thinking about an Athena Theme (one that will be easy for
existing users to upgrade into).
7. quota
Default quota will probably go up before freshmen arrive. More news
to come...
8. Private Workstations
We should deal with this for the next release.
Principles:
"don't blow away user configuration if at all avoidable"
"make it possible to take small patch releases without rebooting"
Dan has been thinking about this some.
If we do both athena-desktop and private workstation fixes, the next
release should be 9.0, not 8.4.
