[3729] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes of 2002-02-05 release team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Feb 5 13:58:21 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:54:53 -0500
Message-Id: <200302051854.NAA21314@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
Attending: ghudson amb zacheiss rbasch jweiss othomas
1. Status
We finished all of last month's goals except two (GNOME 2 integration
and Solaris RPM work). So we need new goals. These will appear in
some form in the status report, but we came up with:
* Develop fast DNS timeout for disconnected operation (warlord, ghudson)
* Develop friendly way to go on/off net or switch interfaces
(warlord, ghudson)
* Develop disco-athena documentation
* Investigate VMWare workaround (warlord)
* Upgrade pine (ghudson)
* Upgrade openssh (zacheiss)
* Upgrade tetex (amb)
* Make SMP installs work (amb)
* Develop IMAP-based from (rbasch)
* Import Mozilla (rbasch)
We are not planning on making a patch release this month. When we do,
we expect deploy:
* Fast AFS timeouts for disconnected operation
* Safe updates
* mkinitrd fix to make Linux install work
A couple of issues:
* The Solaris wash is taking a long time (about 24 hours, currently)
due to gcc 3.2 and the increased amount of GNOME stuff. Mozilla
will make it even slower. Some possible improvements:
- Faster build hardware--unfortunately, this would cost $12-15K
per new machine, so $24-30K to upgrade both.
- If we get multi-processor build machines, we can build whole
packages in parallel to take advantage of both processors.
- Don't rebuild the "early" packages like gcc as part of the
wash. Mozilla would probably more than cancel this out, so
it's not much of a solution.
- Maybe keep a local synctree of the source locker to avoid
copying sources out of AFS so much. Probably a small benefit.
* We can't really document disconnected operation stuff until we
figure out how local homedirs should be created.
2. Mozilla update
There were some quirks, but it mostly went well. The IRIX mozilla
doesn't store lock files right (and thus doesn't recognize when you're
already running mozilla on the same machine).
3. 9.2 issues
Mostly covered above. Bob will take care of integrating the
gnome-libs NOCALLS functionality into GConf2; Greg still has the rest.
There might or might not be an Evolution 2 in time for the release; if
there is, it would be a lot nicer than what we have, visually.
