[2927] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes of 2001-09-05 release team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Sep 5 15:18:53 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:18:45 -0400
Message-Id: <200109051918.PAA01672@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
Attending: ghudson amb zacheiss miki othomas ajfox wdc jweiss
1. Tasks for Mike Whitson
Mike has been hired for ten hours a week, primarily to help
troubleshoot issues arising from all the new stuff in the release.
After thinking about what's been sitting on the back burner, we came
up with:
2. 8.4 Solaris os stat problem
/kernel/fs/afs was listed in the 8.4 Solaris os stats, and since we
changed the module without updating the stat entry, /kernel/fs/afs
gets deleted on public 8.4 Suns.
This probably isn't a real problem since there are probably almost no
8.4 Solaris suns. But we should remove the stat entry, and we should
fix os_checkfiles so that it checks whether a mismatching file exists
in /os before deleting it.
3. knfs
The knfs mountd dies if the first request it gets is from a detach.
miki is working on this.
4. Native 9.0 install for Linux
Greg will propagate the installer volume changes soon.
5. Computed partitions
We will, despite reservations from miki, probably begin computing the
Solaris partition tables instead of having a fixed mapping from disk
type to partition tables. Greg will write the code.
6. EC3
Bill's team will do the following topics:
Negotiating expectations
How to say no to a customer
We will probably have the presentations at the release team meetings
in two weeks and four weeks.
7. Project list
We went over Bill's project list and came up with some amendments.
See http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/projects.html for the (not yet
amended) project list.
Separately, here is a list specifically of important Athena release
items we would like to have for Athena 9.1:
* Building in a chroot area (ghudson+rbasch, partially complete)
* New GUI mail client, and mail transition to IMAP (ghudson)
* krb5 upgrade (unknown, probably ghudson)
* BIND 9 upgrade (unknown)
* OpenAFS import into the source tree (ghudson, or maybe zacheiss)
* Nautilus, if we can get it to work (amb)
* OS upgrades as available (miki and amb)
There may be other notable third-party software upgrades, like a perl
or emacs upgrade, depending on how much time we have and what's
available in the Jan-Feb time frame.
