[3147] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Netscape 6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theresa M Regan)
Mon Feb 18 09:34:38 2002
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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:34:33 -0500
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@mit.edu>
From: Theresa M Regan <tregan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, rferrara@mit.edu, vkumar@mit.edu, azary@mit.edu,
longpd@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu, discovery-council@mit.edu,
jmhunt@mit.edu, jis@mit.edu, mjv@mit.edu
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Hi Mike,
yes, :-) , one of the many crucial success factors of announcing support
for any browser is to ensure that products and services being deployed via
the web remain accessible, stable and robust as a new browser is released.
The software release effort which will be initiated by the Netscape Release
team will include an announcement to the Community-at-large with a request
of volunteers to test and provide feedback. As we have learned from prior
Netscape releases and our recent IE project, it is essential that we reach
out to the major webmasters on-campus (libraries, student services, alumni,
SAPweb, etc.) and proactively include them in the assessment,
recommendations and release.
Hopefully, the announcement for the "Netscape 6.2.1 Release Effort
Underway" will be sent this week and we will in touch, again soon.
Thanks,
Theresa
At 09:07 AM 2/18/2002 -0500, Mike Barker wrote:
>Hi, all.
>
>I would like to add a slightly different dimension to your discussions of
>Netscape 6. Specifically, I don't think AMPS/EMCC necessarily needs
>to be part of the browser discussions, since we don't "put out" a browser.
>However, we do need to have sufficient warning that a new browser is coming
>out, as we need to test our products (Stellar, etc.) using the new browser.
>We also may have some suggestions about plugins and default configuration
>(e.g. Streaming Media and Compression Services may have some requests about
>plugins).
>
>Frankly, we have already had comments about Netscape 6.2 on Mac OS X, and
>have done some modification to make things work there.
>
>I suspect there are other groups who also would be interested in hearing
>early about the change, getting an early testing copy, and otherwise being
>prepared before the new browser hits the streets.
>
>So, in your planning for how to work through new browser releases, could you
>add a "integration" phase where those of us who provide services that depend
>on browsers get a chance to see what needs to change?
>
>It's both a communications thing (letting those of us who aren't on the
>"inner circle" have visibility into what has been learned) and a planning
>thing (giving us a period when testing and modifications can be done).
>
>Thanks
>Mike
>
>At 10:21 PM 2/13/2002 -0500, Theresa M Regan wrote:
> >Good Day,
> >
> >At this juncture, I hesitate trying to respond to the various threads on
> this topic. I am not confident that I will be able to summarize my
> thoughts adequately.
> >
> >I do wish to raise an important dimension of recommending and/or
> supporting "browsers" at MIT and that is web certificates and their
> behaviour within our ever growing secure websites. I am not trying to
> diminish the "file save" issue being raised; however, within the Windows
> and Macintosh spectrums, we have had to delay announcing support for a
> particular browser because of certificate generation issues.
> >
> >If I am understanding the e-mail exchanges, the "release-team" needs
> some clarification and direction, sooner than later. From my
> perspective, a browser discussion requires the following people...
> >
> > Bill Cattey -- representing the "release-team" (this covers
> athena and its various flavors, as well as, LinuxAthena)
> > Jon Hunt/Ginny Williams -- Software Release Team
> > Lee Ridgway -- Netscape Product Release Coordinator
> > Jeff Schiller -- Certificate expert
> > Marshall Vale -- Macintosh Development (in particular, MacOS X
> and certificate issues)
> > Discovery Council
> >
> >Did I overlook any other key roles?
> >
> >For completeness, we do need to test IE web certificate acquisition
> under Windows if any changes are made to the certificate server to
> accommodate issuing certificates under Netscape 6
> >
> >Once we are confident of the participants, I will try to arrange a
> convenient meeting, as well as, work with Bill (and any other
> volunteer(s)) to summarize the discussion and issues.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Theresa
