[5848] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Collecting Athena release features
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Sep 20 13:55:43 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:50:37 -0400
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On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 13:16 -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> In release-77[5845] Greg writes:
>
> > Also, while "Athena can run software out of AFS lockers" is going to
> > be a problem statement, problems we solve with locker software (like
> > "Athena users can run Matlab") are out of scope.
>
> As someone heavily dependent on AFS to do almost all my work this
> makes me a bit concerned (I maintain over 130 AFS lockers containing
> Third Party software), although I understand that AFS works on Ubuntu
> and that there are no imminent plans to get out of the AFS business.
Perhaps I was unclear. Athena 10 will continue to have essentially the
same AFS and locker functionality (although it will likely use autofs
for /mit instead of making people attach every locker by hand). I just
didn't want the list of release features to include the list of
available locker software, since that doesn't (for the most part) bear
on the work required by the Athena release team.
