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Re: 11 February 2003 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Ferrara)
Tue Feb 11 20:13:40 2003
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:13:18 -0500
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Robert Ferrara <rferrara@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Hi Greg,
Thank you for picking this up in Bill's absence.
Cheers, Bob
At 04:13 PM 2/11/2003 -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
>Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
> Team Leader: Bill Cattey
> Report Date: 11 February 2003
>
>Submitted by: Greg Hudson
>
> Team URL: http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/
> Release URL: http://web.mit.edu/release/www/
>
>Accomplishments past period:
>
>Last Month's goals:
>
>ONGOING: Further testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.1.
>
>PROGRESS: Work on Athena Solaris RPM stuff.
>PROGRESS: Complete integration of GNOME 2 and Evolution upgrades.
>
>DONE: Updated email documentation with Mozilla mail configuration.
>DONE: Evaluate disconnected operation deployment and identify what still
> needs to be done.
>DONE: Deploy IAP patch release with local lockers framework, disconnected
> operation framework, OpenAFS upgrade, Solaris security and kernel
> fixes, and Evolution startup fix.
>DONE: Produce document, "Differences between Athena Linux and stock Red
> Hat Linux".
>DONE: Put Mozilla 1.2.1 for Solaris, and Linux with MIT configuration
> into the infoagents locker for testing. Add SGI version.
>DONE: Codify X server understandings into plans for Athena release,
> announced level of laptop functionality, and recommendations
> to IBM.
>
>Community Milestones Met:
>
>DONE: Testing of Mozilla 1.2.1, and setting it as default.
>DONE: Deploy IAP patch release.
>
>Other Accomplishments:
>
> * Integrated new versions of bash, OpenSSL, perl, gcc, and OpenSSH
> for the next full release.
>
>Next month's goals:
>
>ONGOING: Further testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.1.
>
>OLD: Work on Athena Solaris RPM stuff.
>OLD: Complete integration of GNOME 2 and Evolution upgrades.
>
>NEW: Develop fast DNS timeout for disconnected operation.
>NEW: Develop friendly way to go on/off net or switch interfaces.
>NEW: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
>NEW: Investigate workaround for VMWare problem (see "Issues").
>NEW: Integrate new version of Pine for next full release.
>NEW: Integrate new version of openssh for next full release.
>NEW: Make installs of SMP Linux machines work properly.
>NEW: Develop IMAP-based "from" command to improve new message count at
> login.
>NEW: Integrate Mozilla into Athena source tree.
>
>Next Community Milestone(s):
>
>Update Linux installer to support multi-processor machines.
>
>Issues:
>
>VMWare does not get along with the latest Red Hat Linux kernels.
>Although we don't support VMWare, some of our customers use it. We
>advised users to delay taking the latest patch release if they use
>VMWare. We recently learned of a possible workaround and are
>investigating it.
>
>The process of building Athena for Solaris now takes 21 hours on the
>current build machine, due to the high volume of GNOME 2 source and a
>newer, slower (but otherwise improved) gcc. Long build times slow
>down integration work.
>
>We don't seem to have thought through the process of creating a local
>home directory for machines running disconnected. This will make it
>difficult to write documentation.
>
>Summary: About the same as last month.
>
>Additional comments:
>
>Athena Monthly machine counts:
>
>(I don't have these, sorry.)
