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1 December 2004 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Dec 1 13:59:14 2004
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:57:10 -0500
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 1 December 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.
PROGRESS: For Athena disconnected operation, craft fixes for issues
raised in testing and retest.
PROGRESS: Produce new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
ON-HOLD: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA
servers.
DONE: Improve Linux Athena installer documentation.
DELAYED: Finish integration of GNOME 2.8 into upcoming major release.
DONE: Publish revised email documentation containing pine tutorial from
old Athena minicourse.
DONE: Finish populating Athena GForge project with initial set of tasks.
PROGRESS: Develop strategy for migrating Athena bug reports from
discuss to GForge.
DONE: Integrate Solaris kernel patch for future 9.3 patch release.
Community Milestones Met:
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.
Other Accomplishments:
* Draft of OpenOffice introductory document published in OLH.
* OLH got converted to the new IS&T web document style.
* Integrated Solaris package to fix a UTF-8 bug.
* Small update of PWOG (Private Athena Workstation Owner's Guide)
* Updated stock answer documenting differences between Athena and stock
Mozilla configurations.
* Published an updated Workstation Lifecycle Summary document.
* Updated the Athena and Linux Athena topic pages.
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.
OLD: For Athena disconnected operation, craft fixes for issues raised
in testing and retest.
OLD: Produce new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
ON-HOLD: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA
servers.
OLD: Finish integration of GNOME 2.8 into upcoming major release.
OLD: Develop strategy for migrating Athena bug reports from discuss to
GForge.
NEW: Do the work required to make metacity the default window manager
for the next Athena release.
NEW: Integrate updated java development kit to fix java plug-in
security hole.
NEW: Look at Mozilla 1.7.5 to determine if we should update to it.
NEW: Investigate integrating FireFox for next Athena release.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Patch release targeted for early IAP containing bug fixes, and possible
browser upgrade.
Bugfix patch release when next needed.
Issues:
We have received a request through Alex Prengel to integrate Java3d
into the Athena release. This work is non-trivial. We are awaiting a
management decision as to whether or not to proceed with it.
Key learnings:
Additional comments:
Team members have been called away from Athena work to other
activities, and so there have not been a lot of Athena accomplishments
this month.
Team is settling into using GForge.
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 7/2004 8/2004 9/2004 10/2004 11/2004 Delta
LINUX 726 717 790 736 753 +17
SUN 706 716 674 659 647 -12
