[2814] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes of 2001-07-11 release team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 11 18:32:33 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:32:30 -0400
Message-Id: <200107112232.SAA11855@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
Attending: ghudson rbasch ajfox boojum amb aurora wdc
1. Posters
Heather had a draft of the poster which sits next to machines, which
we looked over and made comments on.
2. LANG in SIPB-installed Linux machines
SIPB-installed Linux machines have an /etc/sysconfig/i18n which sets
LANG to en_US, which causes ls output to be sorted case-insensitively.
IS-installed machines don't get this file (it's not part of an RPM;
it's created by anaconda).
The SIPB installer can be modified. Existing machines can be fixed
without stomping on user customizations by comparing the mod time of
the file to the date of the install; details need to be worked out
there.
Public machines should certainly nuke the file.
3. grenew
Will be in 9.0.10.
4. Tasklisk crash
Abby has a corefile in ~ajfox/Public. It seems gnome-core 1.4.0.4
didn't fix all the bugs.
5. Misbehaving Sunblade
Abby reported some problems with a Sunblade (freezing with a blank
white screen, some diagnostics at boot time before the Sun logo, some
panics) which sounded a lot like a case of bad memory, but could
conceivably be a software problem (in which case the kernel and X and
ifb driver updates might help).
6. Public release date
We will release on July 24, or, if we stagger (which may not be
necessary since ~150 Suns will not be updating), July 24, 25, and 26.
July 24 is a Tuesday; this gives us a chance to put 9.0.11 out to the
Athena cell Monday evening.
Suns should be updated first to give cluster a couple of extra days to
install the Sunblades.
7. Sound
There appear to be some sound issues on the GX150; details are
unclear. Andrew will look into them.
On the Sunblade, you can't adjust the volume down; miki or Garry
should look into this if the kernel upgrade doesn't fix it. There is
also no passthrough cable for the CD (and no place to install one),
which is annoying.
8. Team stuff
Garry is now 40% in dev. Directors are still aware we need more
resources.
The development team is now named the Athena Unix Platform Things.
Bill updated the team web page (http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/)
The name "Athena" is going to expand to cover pretty much all existing
IS academic computing products, as well as new ones.
