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Cc: release-team@mit.edu Message-Id: <834C9D49-A87D-44E8-879F-7E2C14D2A2EB@mit.edu> From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> To: ghudson@mit.edu In-Reply-To: <200805070954.m479s9RU017015@outgoing.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 08:48:56 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 This sounds fine with me. Can this happen in time to catch the bulk of the class of '12 registrations? I assume we'd have to decide as a matter of policy that if you nuke your account, you don't get "your" .generation back, you get the most recent one, and are then subject to any changes that have happened since you registered for your account. Which is fine, since it's no different than getting the latest .cshrc, I suppose. I can take care of updating our stock answers, and can send updated text to Heather Anne for the Dotfiles olh document, once we have a date. -Jon On May 7, 2008, at 5:54 AM, ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote: >> I will discuss this at the release team meeting tomorrow and try to >> resolve it then. > > Scratch that plan; I'll discuss it in email. > > My idea is to introduce some kind of counter which increases every > time we change a preference for new accounts. For lack of a better > term, I'll call this a generation. Currently we are in generation 0, > which is marked by the lack of a .generation file. The components of > this change are, then: > > * Install a .generation file containing "1" in /usr/prototype_user > and configure Moira to install it for new accounts. > > * In the environment setup of the global cshrc and bashrc, read the > epoch. Set LPROPT to -Zduplex if the epoch is at least 1. > > To change this preference, users can just set LPROPT to another value > in their .environment files.
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