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4 October 2002 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Oct 2 14:09:59 2002
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:00:48 -0400
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From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 4 October 2002
Last month was a big month; this month was a small month (because of
when progress reports were made).
Submitted by: Bill Cattey
Team URL: http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/
Release URL: http://web.mit.edu/release/www/
Accomplishments past period:
Last Month's goals:
PROGRESS: Work on prototype for Athena disconnected operation.
DELAYED: Get nautilus working for concurrent login sessions.
PROGRESS: Work on Athena Solaris RPM stuff.
DELAYED: Work with IBM on de-kludging video
DONE: Further testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.1 with particular
attention to mozilla.
DONE: Deploy patch release with mozilla and gnome-pilot utilities.
PROGRESS: Updated email documentation with Mozilla mail configuration.
PROGRESS: Further updates to Working on Athena doc.
PROGRESS: Work on getting Athena installer graceful for auto-partion dual
boot on laptops.
Community Milestone Met:
Patch release with Mozilla as the "browser button", and with
local
copying. Patch release will also contain Pilot utilities on Linux (of
value
to PDA users.)
Other Accomplishments:
* Coded a fix to evolution that prevented it from printing under
Solaris.
* Communicated with Red Hat on epro100 ethernet driver futures. The
issue of fixing the driver is closed. We are going to make early
adoption of the planned new standard of the Intel e100 driver.
Next month's goals:
OLD: Work on prototype for Athena disconnected operation.
OLD: Get nautilus working for concurrent login sessions.
OLD: Work on Athena Solaris RPM stuff.
OLD: Work with IBM on de-kludging video
OLD: Updated email documentation with Mozilla mail configuration.
OLD: Further updates to Working on Athena doc.
OLD: Work on getting Athena installer graceful for auto-partion dual
boot on laptops.
NEW: Further testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.1.
NEW: Deploy patch release with support for SunBlade 150 and XVR-500.
NEW: Deploy Mozilla 1.0.1 update.
NEW: Publish Disconnected Operation Project Notebook.
Next Community Milestone:
Patch release that adds support for SunBlade 150 with the new XVR-500
video card, and a fix for Solaris and IRIX Evolution printing.
Issues:
IBM Ethernet problem is CLOSED! We are early adopters of what will be
canonical for Red Hat for the future.
Key learnings:
Team dynamics:
Additional comments:
Athena Monthly machine counts:
New method: Have systems get themselves a unique id every time they
install, and report every day they are up. This is new with Athena
9.1. Systems that did not update will not report in this way.
September August Delta
746 linux 639 linux +107 (high? Some install testing)
72 sgi 74 sgi - 2 (appropriate)
801 sun4 842 sun4 -41 (Multiple installs stopped?)
Old method:
Summary:
1070 Solaris down 6
1205 Linux up 45
How we do it: Every time an Athena system reboots, the event is logged
centrally. We count the unique host names over a period of months.
This is an imperfect count, but it's the best guess we currently have.
Next month we will switch to Athena systems explicitly syslogging their
existance, but that will not count systems that fail to update.)
Here are the number of reboots we saw:
Solaris:
Month: Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep
This: 535 857 487 821 847 825
Sum: 1068 1094 1109 1062 1066 1070
Linux:
Month: Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep
This: 542 437 524 588 658 647
Sum: 916 960 984 1073 1160 1205
