[500] in Release_7.7_team
release notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Mon Apr 22 12:05:25 1996
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:04:02 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Notes from Several Release Meetings (reverse chronological order)
4/17
1. Is mitsis on board about coming changes? They should be prepared
to test their new solaris and irix programs.
2. Private W/S owners need to be reminded to run mkserv update to get
the sol24 update. In particular, until this is done, things that have
been copied local may not be correct.
3. mh/mime--currently, mime is on, mhn_defaults file is odd
PLAN: leave mime builtin
setenv NOMHNPROC in global environment
delete crud in mhn_default (add sense if possible)
tell users that has been done (in release notes, etc.)
4. emacs19
list of changes
dot has a problem with emacsclient (FIXED since meeting--bindings
changed a bit)
does the dotfiles locker have .emacs files? are they reasonable
for emacs19?
publicity! documentation, soon?
5. cc--we all agree on bill's memo!
note: we should let course 100 and similar faculty know what we
are doing.
6. transcript (reported as EZ problem)
these are postscript tools used for printing, previewing, etc.
we have jumped from 2.1 to 4.1
one key user-visible change--psrev (used for selective printing,
reverse order print) is no longer available. use pslpr instead (with
very different syntax).
Solaris--all transcript programs built and tested okay.
IRIX--pslpr, psnup, psdraft have problems
tasks to move this along
1. move to src tree (greg?)
2. check print server Athena lpr changes consistent (miki, delayed)
3. psrev--bert will provide a shell with stderr kvetching
ghudson2 will fix pslpr on irix
4. documents! kevin
- psrev deprecated
-L landscape mode (a local Athena hack) is gone
One change--we are moving the transcript fonts from /usr/lib/fonts to
/usr/athena/lib/fonts. This avoids "stepping" on fonts from other
packages.
7. AFS
key problem--warm shutdown still hangs
(BILL--What were the other problems?)
8. We decided that when sol24 enters beta (with machines in other
parts of the campus) we will start using the formal release system,
with letter bumps when needed to cause remote systems to upgrade.
9. Reid reported that under irix5.3, input focus handling under 4dwm
seems to have changed. This should be checked.
4/11
Attending: dot, jj, carla, bill, bruce, craig, greg, mark, mike
1. Sol24 cc--okay, needs to be documented
2. sol24 emacs19--need posters, maybe help documentation soon
3. should training and pubs have an alpha machine? ask them.
4. quick review of labels
testing labels vs. machine groups
crash and burn--selected few machines
alpha--selected few
beta--should expand group (use beta group?)
release-- may have quick early (staff+selected), then go to field (97-98%)
5. need more SGIs on desks--may involve bledsoe (acs machine) in
testing at alpha
6. question came up about support needed by dialup services. Note
that these are currently DEC systems, using the Athena release. Are
they going to go to SUNs?
7. A humble support person suggested that we present mh/mime, cc, and
emacs19 at an ACMG meeting.
8. AFS still causes reboot hang on sol24. Since such a reboot
happens automatically during the update process, this would mean
roughly 1/3 of the systems on campus would need manual intervention.
UNACCEPTABLE!
Unknown date
1. A humble support person reported that the message about "mark byte
range lock" is basically unacceptable from the user point of view.
2. We noted that we very much need to conduct testing of the AFS
cache manager functions.
3. The lack of transcript was noted.
4. There was a problem reported with MAE. The solution was either to
update or go to MAE 3.0. I'm not sure what this was.
5. There was a suggestion that we think about candidates for removal
from the release.
6. There is a checklist available in ~dot/Release/checklist (I think
this got moved to the Release locker)
