[5464] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes of 2006-05-10 release team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 10 15:31:34 2006
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:31:22 -0400
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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Attending: ghudson amb aurora rbasch wdc jweiss
1. Progress on 9.9
We are within spitting distance of having a 9.9 proto-release which
works well enough to start testing out. Right now we're working on
configuring the native login system to do Athena-ish logins; there are
a lot of details to worry about.
Since we plan to use up2date for updates, Andrew will point Greg at
documentation on the server side of RHN so we can get an idea of how
to set up the Athena channel on the satellite server.
2. Summer patch release
We will put out a summer patch release as soon as we finish
integrating Firefox 1.5. Bob has a working extension to make the
customizations we need, and we talked a bit about how to package it.
There is no RHEL 4 RPM for the current Firefox release yet, but we can
fall back to running blobrpm on the tarfile.
We also want to upgrade to OpenAFS 1.4.1 for this patch release,
instead of the release candidate we have.
3. 64-bit Athena
Bill notes that some currently recommended hardware contains 64-bit
processors and ships with 64-bit Windows. Athena currently does not
have a 64-bit install option, but it would probably be easier to do
that with 9.9. This might create some amount of external motivation
for the output of the 9.9 work, as opposed to the internal motivation
of maintaining fewer local components.
The feeling at the meeting was that demand for 64-bit OS installations
is probably low, since 64-bit processing is only really important for
very large in-memory data sets and certain numeric applications, and
is just a performance drag for general applications.
4. Status report
(Sent separately.)
