[1910] in Release_7.7_team
minutes, 8/18
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed Aug 18 16:05:54 1999
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:05:44 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199908182005.QAA447948@antharia.mit.edu>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Attendance: danw, ghudson, aurora, miki, ajfox, kcr, rbasch, wdc, tb,
jweiss.
Oliver is busy being seven people in N42.
1. 8.3.16
Minor stuff:
- TeX fonts issue
- ufsdump patch
- bash dotfiles
- lpr fix
- ...
Should go out before classes. Miki has to deal with two more Solaris
patches for Alex. It's probably too late to get it out to athena by
Monday, so it will go to dev some time before then, and to athena on
the 30th.
2. Private Workstations
Jeff is supposed to get Greg examples of things that break on the
update.
We may be able to make a bunch of people a lot happier with little
effort just by adding more things to configfiles.
3. SGI
Bill will soon be getting a message from SGI that says "No, we don't
want to partner with you, we don't want to work with you on any of the
issues you've raised, we don't want to fix your bugs, etc."
This is actually a good thing, because now we know not to waste our
time on them.
Bill also asked them what their migration path (Irix->Linux) is, and
they have no idea, but will get back to us. He asked MSI (one of the
big Irix-only third-party software vendors) the same question and they
don't know yet either.
4. Linux-Athena
The report is at http://web.mit.edu/als/www/
It was presented to the ACMG. They were expecting to have to try to
convince people, but everyone agreed it was the right thing.
Thomas will type in the questions people had and deal with them.
One thing to come out of the meeting is that a layered release is
considered more critical than they'd expected. It should become a
deliverable of the project. Thomas, Greg, and Dan will think about
this.
5. Athena Desktop
A lot of integration work has been done. It's in the aui locker. You
can sort of run it, most of the time.
Now we need a prototype desktop. Thomas is thinking about an Athena
theme, possibly involving MIT colors. It should look nice and be
useful, but it doesn't have to be perfect, because it's easy to change
to a new theme. We may want to get help from other design-clueful
people within I/S (but not the expensive outside graphic design
contractors).
