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2 February 2005 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Feb 2 14:11:31 2005
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:12:39 -0500
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 2 February 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:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
ON-HOLD: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
PROGRESS: 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.
PROGRESS: Investigate integrating FireFox for next Athena release.
DONE: Integrate Mozilla 1.7.5 for IAP patch release.
PROGRESS: Deploy new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
PROGRESS: Implement strategy for migrating Athena bug reports from
discuss to GForge.
DELAYED: Integrate OpenAFS 1.3.7? for Linux 2.6 and Solaris 10 support.
DELAYED: Integrate upcoming Kerberos 1.4 release into summer's Athena
full release.
DELAYED: Integrate new version of OpenSSH summer's Athena full release.
DONE: Investigate RPM issue that is preventing upgrade of tcsh.
DELAYED: Investigate RPM issue that is resulting in deleted system
files as a result of interrupted updates.
DELAYED: Begin integrating Solaris 10 for summer's Athena full release.
Community Milestones Met:
Patch release targeted for early IAP containing bug fixes, browser
upgrade, and Update 4 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 went to customers
on Jan 18/19th.
Other Accomplishments:
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
ON-HOLD: 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.
CHANGED: Outreach to browser-release proposing integrating FireFox for
next Athena release.
OLD: Deploy new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
OLD: Implement strategy for migrating Athena bug reports from discuss
to GForge.
OLD: Integrate OpenAFS 1.3.7? for Linux 2.6 and Solaris 10 support.
OLD: Integrate upcoming Kerberos 1.4 release into summer's Athena full
release.
OLD: Integrate new version of OpenSSH summer's Athena full release.
OLD: Investigate RPM issue that is resulting in deleted system files as
a result of interrupted updates.
OLD: Begin integrating Solaris 10 for summer's Athena full release.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Patch release tentatively scheduled for Late March.
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. Some time
has gone by without a response. We will ask again.
A timeout problem with AFS in disconnected operation (If you start AFS
when you're off-net you hang for a long time.) was thought to be fixed
but is not. We consider this a show-stopper for graceful disconnected
operation, and have put other disconnected operation work on hold until
this issue is resolved.
Key learnings:
wdc thought providing statistics on number of unique Athena cluster
logins was difficult. It is not as difficult as we thought. We are
examining how to report on this on a more regular basis.
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.
746 linux
11 sgi
645 sun4
SYSTYPE 8/2004 9/2004 10/2004 11/2004 12/2004 1/2005 Delta
LINUX 717 790 736 753 737 746 +9
SUN 716 674 659 647 632 645 +13
