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What's our Open AFS Validation plan?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Apr 30 12:17:58 2001
Message-ID: <AuvN0jtz0001JZNu5o@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:17:51 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
CC: ted@MIT.EDU
Ted McCabe in his role as 'official liaison to Open AFS' asked this:
<talking with my OpenAFS Elder hat on>
When last I spoke with you about this, your brain wasn't running at
full steam ;-). This excerpt seems like a clear message that MIT
will be commiting resources to validate openafs on at least one
platform. I was not getting a clear msg before.
Please let me know if I'm interpreting the excerpt incorrectly.
So I'll get the ball rolling with the openafs council and raise the
issue with them when next we talk (which is soon). It would help
immensely if you can let me know before May 8 of any specifics as to
what MIT could commit to validation.
I think our "plan" up to now was for Garry to fetch the sources, build
them and fiddle with them until they were in good enough shape to hand
off to Andrew for beta deployment, and then we were going to cross our
fingers.
It would put the Athena Release Team on a more stable footing
planning-wise, and politically if we came up with something a little
more formal. The more formal statement of who and what we will put
behind the validation effort can be forwarded to OpenAFS as a framework
for our collaboration on this. i.e. by being a little more formal we'll
be able to
get others involved and make it better faster.
How should we proceed to answer Ted's question?
-wdc
