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6 December 2002 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Dec 4 13:54:54 2002
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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: 6 December 2002
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:
DONE: Further testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.1.
PROGRESS: Work on Athena Solaris RPM stuff.
PROGRESS: Updated email documentation with Mozilla mail configuration.
DONE: Further updates to Working on Athena doc.
DELAYED: Finish development of Disconnected Operation framework.
DONE: Deploy gconf modifications to allow nautilus to work for concurrent
login sessions.
PROGRESS: Deploy Athena installer that does not delete partitions
willy-nilly.
DONE: Deploy maintenance patch release with various fixes, if and only if
it can be deployed before Drop Date.
PROGRESS: Make demonstrable progress on Mozilla update. Deploy it if
possible.
DONE: Review and possibly publish updated PWOG.
DONE: Flesh out Disconnected Operation Project Notebook.
Community Milestone Met:
Maintenance patch release with various fixes, if and only if it can be
deployed before Drop Date.
Other Accomplishments:
Qualified new IBM configuration. (Required new Athena install media the
work for which is also done.)
Progress on Athena Solaris 9 install.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Further testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.1.
OLD: Work on Athena Solaris RPM stuff.
OLD: Updated email documentation with Mozilla mail configuration.
OLD: Finish development of Disconnected Operation framework.
OLD: Deploy Athena installer that does not delete partitions willy-nilly.
OLD: Make demonstrable progress on Mozilla update. Deploy it if
possible.
NEW: Prepare and test IAP patch release containing local lockers
framework, disconnected operation framework for linux.
NEW: Import GNOME-2 and Evolution upgrades to Athena source tree.
NEW: Import Open AFS upgrade to Athena source tree.
Next Community Milestone(s):
1. Mozilla update.
2. Deploy new Athena Linux install media to support new hardware.
3. IAP Patch release for Athena.
Issues:
Security update of Mozilla was delayed because SAP Web work took up all
the time of the person who was going to do it.
IBM Wireless Lan Card initialization question.
We need to clarify to IBM how video support could be improved to much
better meet our needs.
Key learnings:
Team dynamics:
Additional comments:
Athena Monthly machine counts:
Summary: About the same as last month.
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.
November October Delta
746 linux 771 linux -25 (undoes last months uptick)
65 sgi 71 sgi -6 (continued SGI shutdowns)
780 sun 801 sun4 -21 (odd. 771 rebooted this month.)
Old method:
Summary:
1056 Solaris down 11
1233 Linux up 1
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: Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
This: 487 821 847 825 753 772
Sum: 1109 1062 1066 1070 1067 1056
Linux:
Month: Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
This: 524 588 658 647 599 527
Sum: 984 1073 1160 1205 1232 1233
