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3 November 2004 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Nov 3 13:47:03 2004
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:47:42 -0500
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 3 November 2004
Submitted by: Bill Cattey
Team URL: http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/
Release URL: http://web.mit.edu/release/www/
Accomplishments past period:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.3.
Last Month's goals:
PROGRESS: Review, revise and publish document, "Differences between
Athena
Linux and stock Red Hat Linux".
DELAYED: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
DELAYED: For Athena disconnected operation, craft fixes for issues
raised in testing and retest.
PROGRESS: Produce new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
DELAYED: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA
servers.
DELAYED: Improve Linux Athena installer documentation.
PROGRESS: Finish integration of GNOME 2.8 into upcoming major release.
DELAYED: Publish revised email documentation containing pine tutorial
from old Athena minicourse.
Community Milestones Met:
Other Accomplishments:
* Wrote document comparing RHN and Athena update. TODO: Find the best
place to publish it.
* Did all the work to produce the patch release, deployed it to the dev
cell for testing. Target general deploy for 8 November.
* Created GForge project for Athena release
(http://gforge.mit.edu/projects/athena/). Began populating it with
work items.
* Worked with ACIS team on getting Athena happy on non-standard
configurations in classrooms.
* Experimented with converting Athena CVS source repository to
subversion, with an eye to possible future migration.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
OLD: Review, revise and publish document, "Differences between Athena
Linux and stock Red Hat Linux".
OLD: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
CHANGED: For Athena disconnected operation, craft fixes for issues
raised in testing and retest.
OLD: Produce new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
OLD: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA servers.
OLD: Improve Linux Athena installer documentation.
OLD: Finish integration of GNOME 2.8 into upcoming major release.
OLD: Publish revised email documentation containing pine tutorial from
old Athena minicourse.
NEW: Finish populating Athena GForge project with tasks.
NEW: Develop strategy for migrating Athena bug reports from discuss to
GForge.
NEW: Integrate Solaris kernel patch for future 9.3 patch release.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Patch release, target before Drop Date, containing:
Mozilla security patch.
Relevant updates from Red Hat Enterprise 3 Update 3, mostly security
patches and hardware compatibility enhancements.
Add java software development kit on Linux to local disk.
Bugfix patch release when next needed.
Issues:
Key learnings:
Additional comments:
Athena Monthly machine counts:
Method: On install, machines get a unique ID. Each day every system
reports its existence to a central syslog. This method over-counts
systems installed multiple times. Systems running Athena than 9.0 or
earlier are not counted.
SYSTYPE 6/2004 7/2004 8/2004 9/2004 10/2004 Delta
LINUX 742 726 717 790 736 -54
SUN 681 706 716 674 659 -15
