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Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <6646ce8da54230219597b061b44e6265@MIT.EDU> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:31:19 -0400 To: owls@MIT.EDU, ois@MIT.EDU X-Spam-Score: -2.099 X-Spam-Flag: NO Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team Report Date: 8 June 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. CHANGED: Integrate new version of OpenSSH summer's Athena full release. (Currently planning to punt until a newer version of OpenSSH offers more benefit for the cost of doing the integration.) DELAYED: Investigate RPM issue that is resulting in deleted system files as a result of interrupted updates. (Our priority has been with more urgent and bigger issues in the new release.) PROGRESS: Finish Solaris 10 integration for summer's Athena full release. (Updating to Solaris 10 has been done for some time. Now working on install, possibly using new Solaris WANBoot since we're still waiting on required source components from Sun to update our CNBoot system.) DELAYED: Discuss project plans for long term Athena work. DONE: Athena 9.4 Beta Release, re-targeted for May 15. DELAYED: Implement Java3d request. DELAYED: Integrate gaim into release if decision is made to move forward. Community Milestones Met: None scheduled. Other Accomplishments: * System release notes are done. * Imported Mozilla 1.7.8 and Firefox 1.0.4 security fixes. * Updated helper app support for MIME components in GNOME. * Implemented scripts to migrate Linux machines from lilo to grub boot system in response to observing that lilo does not function properly in RHEL 4. * Investigated AFS cache coherency issue where the user sees an old version of a file instead of the current version. * Resolved AFS issue that was causing Linux logins to hang. * Got Emacs to build under Solaris 10 and stopped reusing 9.3 binaries under 9.4. 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: Investigate RPM issue that is resulting in deleted system files as a result of interrupted updates. OLD: Discuss project plans for long term Athena work. OLD: Implement Java3d request. OLD: Integrate gaim into release if decision is made to move forward. CHANGED: Finish Solaris 10 installer integration for summer's Athena full release. NEW: Athena Early Release targeted for June 13. NEW: Continue investigating AFS cache coherency issue. NEW: Patch release prior to going to Early to fix last set of important bugs. NEW: User Release Notes. Next Community Milestone(s): Early Release targeted for June 13. 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 6/8/05.) 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. (We think we can resolve this issue by setting AFS to start on first network up event (like we do for zhm) instead of at boot time.) Lack of certain long-ago requested Solaris Source modules is preventing forward progress on a direct install of Solaris 10, on updating dialup servers to Solaris 10, and porting knfs to Solaris 10. We would like to discontinue support of knfs, but we are unsure if our remaining customer base for knfs is willing or able to switch to something else like AFS or SMB. Red Hat seems to have decided to delete GSSAPI Kerberos support from OpenSSH. Development of Kerberos support by OpenSSH.org seems to be going in a different direction than we'd ideally prefer. This may spell more integration effort by MIT for Kerberos in OpenSSH in the future. The developers have lots of vacation time to "use or lose". We are working this issue and hope to meet our deadlines without sacrificing much in the way of accrued vacation. 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 12/2004 01/2005 02/2005 03/2005 04/2005 05/2005 Delta LINUX 737 746 770 762 743 732 -11 SUN 632 645 621 627 627 617 -10 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 05/05 Total: 353970 308526 334070 300274 Unique: 10847 10493 10492 10465 Median: 12 10 12 10
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