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5 January 2005 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Jan 5 13:57:13 2005
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:51:59 -0500
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 5 January 2005
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:
DONE: 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.
DONE: Produce new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
ON-HOLD: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA
servers.
DONE: Finish integration of GNOME 2.8 into upcoming major release.
DONE: Develop strategy for migrating Athena bug reports from discuss to
GForge.
DONE: Do the work required to make metacity the default window manager
for the next Athena release.
DONE: Integrate updated java development kit to fix java plug-in
security hole.
DONE: Look at Mozilla 1.7.5 to determine if we should update to it.
PROGRESS: Investigate integrating FireFox for next Athena release.
Community Milestones Met:
Other Accomplishments:
* Improved gcc tool chain for summer's full Solaris release.
* Began preparations for IAP patch release.
* Integrated Solaris patch to close ping security hole.
* Improved handling of trash can in Nautilus file browser.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
OLD: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
OLD: For Athena disconnected operation, craft fixes for issues raised
in testing and retest.
ON-HOLD: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA
servers.
OLD: Investigate integrating FireFox for next Athena release.
NEW: Integrate Mozilla 1.7.5 for IAP patch release.
NEW: Deploy new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
NEW: Implement strategy for migrating Athena bug reports from discuss
to GForge.
NEW: Integrate OpenAFS 1.3.7? for Linux 2.6 and Solaris 10 support.
NEW: Integrate upcoming Kerberos 1.4 release into summer's Athena full
release.
NEW: Integrate new version of OpenSSH summer's Athena full release.
NEW: Investigate RPM issue that is preventing upgrade of tcsh.
NEW: Investigate RPM issue that is resulting in deleted system files as
a result of interrupted updates.
NEW: Begin integrating Solaris 10 for summer's Athena full release.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Patch release targeted for early IAP containing bug fixes, browser
upgrade, and Update 4 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
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 8/2004 9/2004 10/2004 11/2004 12/2004 Delta
LINUX 717 790 736 753 737 -16
SUN 716 674 659 647 632 -15
