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4 May 2005 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed May 4 13:47:22 2005
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From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 13:46:17 -0400
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Report Date: 4 May 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.
ON-HOLD: Implement strategy for migrating Athena bug reports from
discuss to GForge.
ON-HOLD: For Athena disconnected operation, craft fixes for issues
raised in testing and retest.
DONE: Deploy new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
DELAYED: Integrate new version of OpenSSH into summer's Athena full
release.
(This is actually not a very important task because our present OpenSSH
works fine, and taking a new version is a bit of work.)
DELAYED: Investigate RPM issue that is resulting in deleted system
files as
a result of interrupted updates. (We have been pushing Red Hat on more
important issues, such as Hardware collaboration, and the Satellite
server.)
PROGRESS: Finish Solaris 10 integration for summer's Athena full
release.
DELAYED: Discuss project plans for long term Athena work. (Focus has
been on urgent issues related to on-time deployment of the new
Release.)
DONE: Deploy Athena 9.4 Alpha release.
DONE: Finish integrating Firefox into Athena 9.4.
DONE: Any release-related Jabber work required for jabbber options
presentation in May.
(We examined various client options, and recommend gaim. TODO: Decide
whether or not it will go into the release.)
DELAYED: Athena 9.4 Beta Release, targeted for May 1. (This time around
we have had more serious issues in Alpha than in previous years. We
are hot on the trail of remedies for RHEL 4 update related show
stoppers.)
DONE: Definitively resolve to either implement or reject Java3d request.
Community Milestones Met:
None scheduled.
Other Accomplishments:
* Integrated new version of Kerberos 5 to resolve issue of kadmin
backward compatibility.
* Integrated security updates for Mozilla and Firefox.
* Developed and integrated changes to disallow root logins (but not su)
to cluster and quickstations for summer release.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
ON-HOLD: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
ON-HOLD: Implement strategy for migrating Athena bug reports from
discuss to GForge.
ON-HOLD: For Athena disconnected operation, craft fixes for issues
raised in testing and retest.
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: Finish Solaris 10 integration for summer's Athena full release.
OLD: Discuss project plans for long term Athena work.
OLD: Athena 9.4 Beta Release, re-targeted for May 15.
NEW: Implement Java3d request.
NEW: Integrate gaim into release if decision is made to move forward.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Early Release targeted for June 15.
Bugfix patch release when next needed.
Issues:
OpenAFS and the Linux community are not doing as good a job of working
together as we would like. Getting a working AFS as we adopt RHEL 4
with the 2.6 kernel will be a bit of extra work. (May still be an issue
as of 5/5/05.)
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. (Still an issue as of 5/4/05.)
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 11/2004 12/2004 01/2005 02/2005 03/2005 04/2005 Delta
LINUX 753 737 746 770 762 743 19
SUN 647 632 645 621 627 627 0
Monthly Athena Login counts:
Method: By reviewing of the logs of the service that makes
personalized notifications to users at login time, we are able to count
the number of unique Athena logins. Here we display the total number of
logins over a four week period, the number of logins by unique user ID
and the median number of logins per unique user ID.
Date: 02/05 03/05 04/05
Total: 353970 308526 334070
Unique: 10847 10493 10492
Median: 12 10 12
