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Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <6603b654b5b5ee2791f0a31e2b31c45a@MIT.EDU> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:43:21 -0400 To: owls@MIT.EDU, ois@MIT.EDU X-Spam-Score: -1.699 X-Spam-Flag: NO Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team Report Date: 6 July 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 current Athena release. 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. DELAYED: Investigate RPM issue that is resulting in deleted system files as a result of interrupted updates. DELAYED: Discuss project plans for long term Athena work. DELAYED: Implement Java3d request. PROGRESS: Integrate gaim into release if decision is made to move forward. PROGRESS: Finish Solaris 10 installer integration for summer's Athena full release. DONE: Athena Early Release targeted for June 13. (Fixed) DONE: Patch release prior to going to Early to fix last set of important bugs. DONE: User Release Notes. Community Milestones Met: Early Release targeted for June 13. Other Accomplishments: * Resolved failure with Linux auto-update to 9.4. * Integrated Java 1.5 package updates to both Solaris and Linux, and set version 1.5 as the default. * Investigated new AFS issue resulting in kernel crashes under Linux. 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. OLD: Finish Solaris 10 installer integration for summer's Athena full release. NEW: Athena Public Release targeted for August 8 if AFS issue is resolved. Next Community Milestone(s): Athena Public Release targeted for August 8 if AFS issue is resolved. Bugfix patch release when next needed. Issues: Getting a working AFS as we adopt RHEL 4 with the 2.6 kernel s has become a show stopper as of July 6. The current version of AFS occasionally kills client systems. We are testing a roll-back to 1.3.81, while working to find and fix the panic problem. Worst case, we can postpone the Athena 9.4 roll-out to IAP since new hardware does yet require it. 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. (Have not had time to investigate as of July 6.) 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. Dialup upgrades are not yet urgent. We are investigating WANBoot instead of CNBoot. We have requested Owls investigate sunset of KNFS. We are also investigating trying to use Open Solaris for the necessary modules. 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. (July 8: We are investigating possibilities.) 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. (Many non-critical goals were on hold this month.) 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 01/2005 02/2005 03/2005 04/2005 05/2005 06/2005 Delta LINUX 746 770 762 743 732 700 -32 SUN 645 621 627 627 617 608 -19 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 06/05 Total: 353970 308526 334070 300274 215206 Unique: 10847 10493 10492 10465 8659 Median: 12 10 12 10 5
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