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2 July 2003 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Jul 2 13:59:26 2003
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:57:51 -0400
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 4 June 2003
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:
Ongoing: Testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.2. -- ONGOING
DONE: Prepare user release notes for Athena 9.2
DONE: Deploy Early release of Athena 9.2
DELAYED: Develop 9.2-based Solaris miniroot.
PROGRESS: Develop RedHat 9-based Linux miniroot.
DELAYED: Develop Athena 9.2 knfs port.
DONE: Investigate quitting worrying about workaround for VMWare
problem. -- We're going to quit worrying about this.
PROGRESS: Evaluate laptop hardware for Athena recommendations.
PROGRESS: Evaluate desktop hardware for Athena recommendations if any
arrives from IBM or HP.
PROGRESS: Produce document, "Differences between Athena Linux and stock
Red
Hat Linux".
DONE: Develop fast DNS timeout for disconnected operation.
PROGRESS: Develop friendly way to go on/off net or switch interfaces.
DELAYED: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
Community Milestone Met:
Athena Early released as targeted on June 16.
Other Accomplishments:
* Began integration of Evolution version 1.4.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.2.
NEW: Deploy new 9.2 based installers for Solaris and Linux
OLD: Develop 9.2-based Solaris miniroot.
OLD: Develop RedHat 9-based Linux miniroot.
OLD: Develop Athena 9.2 knfs port.
OLD: Evaluate laptop hardware for Athena recommendations.
OLD: Evaluate desktop hardware for Athena recommendations if any
arrives from IBM or HP.
OLD: Produce document, "Differences between Athena Linux and stock Red
Hat Linux".
OLD: Develop friendly way to go on/off net or switch interfaces.
OLD: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Athena 9.2 Public release targeted for July 14.
Produce Linux Athena desktop hardware recommendation for annual renewal.
Issues:
* We discovered that our beta testers were not big users of GNOME, so
too many new GNOME bugs were discovered during Early that should,
ideally, have been discovered during Beta. We hope to change our mix
of testers and strengthen the GNOME aspect of Beta testing next time
around.
Key learnings:
Additional comments:
We are dropping the old method of machine counting as of July 1, 2003
SGI was officially de-supported at 00:00:01 July 1, 2003. We will
celebrate soon!
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 over-counts systems
installed multiple times, and under-counts systems that predate Athena
9.1.
June May April Delta
744 linux 756 linux 753 linux -12
64 sgi 61 sgi 64 sgi +3
784 sun 786 sun 824 sun4 -2
Old method: Count unique host names seen rebooting. To remedy
under-count systems that don't reboot, we sum over a six months. That
over-counts systems that were re-purposed to non-athena use.
Summary:
898 Solaris up 8
939 Linux down 16
Eventually the two counts should converge on the same value, but it's
still a noisy count with 10-20% error.
Here are the number of reboots we saw:
Solaris:
Month: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
This: 746 444 751 495 731 350
Sum: 1007 958 914 909 890 898
Linux:
Month: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
This: 461 410 459 439 326 274
Sum: 1193 1137 1064 1000 955 939
