[197] in Release_7.7_team
Meeting minutes 10/27/94
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorothy Bowe)
Mon Oct 31 15:28:45 1994
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 15:28:39 EST
From: Dorothy Bowe <dot@MIT.EDU>
In Attendance: Dot, Mike, Anne S., Matt, Craig, Carla, Kevin, JJ, Bruce
This meeting was spent making a first pass through the complete list of
release suggestions, stating for each item (where possible) the
following:
Effort [1-Easy, 2-Medium, 3-Difficult]
Understood [1-Completely Understood, 2-Needs Clarification,
3-Needs to be investigated before we can decide]
Candidate for January release
Whether it is a "behind-the-scenes" change or not
This discussion resulted in the formation of several lists.
Items which need clarification for some reason:
* Build X clients with newer versions of X11 and Motif
* AFS 3.3 servers
* man page for Athena man
* Compiler support for Solaris
* Support for Xntpd servers
* Discuss fixes
* encrypted passwords out of /etc/passwd
* Use local disks better
* /bin/login umask fix
* Printer support
* AFS patches
* More OLC support
* Hook for user on deactivation list
* AIX 3.2.5
Items requiring a policy decision:
* Sound
Items rejected:
* Shutdown with zshutdown_notify
[need vendor source]
* Interoperable Talk
[done in 7.7K, with minor bug]
* Downdate support
[not a release issue]
* Merge Acl library
* Tech Documentation
[not a release issue]
* Test Suites
[not a release issue]
* Merge JET libraries
[not a release issue]
* Ksh support
* DCE support
* Xzewd
[support issues]
* Comp bug on DEC
[Do believe it is a bug; Dot to talk to Reid]
A complete list of suggestions is in the release77 locker as
/mit/release77/Release7.8/Suggestions
The next meeting will take place on Thursday, November 3 at 10:00.
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Dorothy Bowe
Academic Computing Services
Faculty Liaison
email: dot@mit.edu
phone: (617)253-0170
fax: (617)258-8736
