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1/7/02 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Jan 7 18:34:05 2002
Message-ID: <AwCX1ehz0001Ib=a53@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:34:02 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU, owls@MIT.EDU, delivery-council@MIT.EDU
Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Development
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 7 January 2002
Submitted by: Bill Cattey
Team URL: http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/
Release URL: http://web.mit.edu/release/www/
December has been a slow month. We did not accomplish as much
as we expected, but that's because there were significantly fewer
working hours than normal this month.
Accomplishments past period:
From goals:
* Roll out AUI GNOME tasklist bugfix to the field. (Delayed)
* Prepare for ITAG presentation on Email client project. (DONE)
* Present Athena to interested Sun higher-education executives. (DONE)
* Complete refinement of dual-boot Athena Linux custom install into
production quality. Target deployment for early January patch release.
(PROGRESS)
* Complete installation of new KVM equipment and do UNIX team's
tasks for cleanup of the Test Cluster. (DONE) Assist other teams with
completing the cleanup work. (PROGRESS)
Other Accomplishments:
* Made contact with an important EECS customer with many Linux
Athena systems. TODO: Get Athena meeting more of EECS needs.
* Substantial progress integrating the latest Kerberos release for next
summer's Athena release.
* Put in place a new mechanism for keeping a count of how many
Athena Sun and Linux systems are alive out in the field.
Goals for the coming period:
* Put out a patch release containing the tasklist fix, some Kerberos
security fixes, a time synchronization fix, and some Sun patches to fix
hangs on Sunblades and Netra T1s.
* Get Evolution to build on Solaris and IRIX.
Carry overs from last month:
* Roll out AUI GNOME tasklist bugfix to the field. (merged into
patch release goal above)
* Complete or make substantial progress on the the Evolution
integration. (Support for "treat a remote inbox as primary inbox"
functionality, did not come from third party. We may have to do it
ourselves.)
* Complete refinement of dual-boot Athena Linux custom install into
production quality. Target deployment for early January patch release.
* Complete installation of new KVM equipment and do UNIX team's
tasks for cleanup of the Test Cluster. Assist other teams with
completing the cleanup work.
* Hold a meeting to discuss possible workplan responses to Zephyr
usability report (and other Zephyr issues, perhaps.)
* Get a Mozilla locker created and populated with current binaries
for people to play with.
* Ongoing look at Nautilus as a canidate for 9.1
Issues:
Key learnings:
Team dynamics:
Additional comments:
