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2 July 2008 Athena Release Team Status Report
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Wed Jul 2 16:18:30 2008
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Team Name: Athena Release Team
Report Date: 2 July 2008
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.
PROGRESS: Develop Athena10 solution for time synchronization against
time.mit.edu (assigned to amb.)
PROGRESS: Develop Athena10 solution for emacs site configuration (assigned to
amb.)
PROGRESS: Develop Athena10 solutions for other items in project plan as
resources are available.
DELAYED: Decide what we want to do about possible Athena VMware image
offering.
Community Milestones Met:
Athena Install media has been deployed.
We're still working on getting the PXE image updated
Other Accomplishments:
* Rewrote the build infrastructure for OpenAFS modules to create meta
packages so that AFS modules are built and installed in sync with kernel
updates.
* Developed infrastructure to auto-build 3rd party packages containing
MIT-local changes when new upstream versions become available. (The AFS
modules are included here too.)
* Executed printing plan that we formulated at last month's Release Team
meeting.
* Integrated Evolution into Athena 10.
* Implemented graphical login session for Athena 10 relying on native
packages.
* Fixed multiple discuss bugs on 64 bit platforms.
* Made small fixes to the Athena dot files for Athena 10.
* Added a menu of locker software for Athena 10.
* Added a "Renew Authentication" menu item to Athena 10.
* Updated Firefox extension for Firefox 3.0.
* Researched problem with Athena guests under both Xen and VMware
crashing when accessing a particular directory in AFS.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
OLD: Develop Athena10 solution for time synchronization against
time.mit.edu (assigned to amb.)
OLD: Develop Athena10 solution for emacs site configuration (assigned to
amb.)
OLD: Develop Athena10 solutions for other items in project plan as
resources are available.
OLD: Decide what we want to do about possible Athena VMware image
offering.
NEW: Integrate alpine into Athena 10 as replacement for Athena pine.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Deploy new PXE image.
Issues:
A Firefox update now prompts users before sending client certificates to
servers. This is an improvement of privacy, but gets annoying. We need
to decide when to deploy this update. UPDATE: We discussed this at the
7/2 Release Team meeting and decided to deploy this at the next
convenient patch release, and to include documentation.
There seems to be a dearth of formal documentation of Install Lore.
Additional stock answers should be written.
Lack of support for Kerberos 5 on the MIT PO servers is holding up
development of a solution for nmh and creates additional work for
Evolution and pine integration.
Ops has some concerns about a desktop-server platform split (Ubuntu
vs. RHEL 4). We need to keep in communication with them about that.
Kerberos 4 mail clients like mh, xmh, and exmh are going to die when
Kerberos 4 is shut down. Our plan is to investigate amending inc to
support Kerberos 5 as soon as the mail servers get Kerberos 5 support.
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.
Summary: Here we see the effect of cluster renewal beginning to
replace Suns with Linux systems.
SYSTYPE 01/08 02/08 03/08 04/08 05/08 6/08 Delta
LINUX 851 834 800 789 798 762 -36
SUN 256 233 235 231 229 222 -7
Count of systems registered for RHN (Non Athena update):
Date 01/08 02/08 03/08 04/08 05/08 06/08 Delta
Total 1854 1883 1951 2052 2100 2136 +36
Inactive 1016 989 1046 1185 1223 1276 +53
Active 838 894 905 867 877 860 -17
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.
Summary: We clearly see that people have left for the summer.
Date: 01/08 02/08 03/08 04/08 05/08 06/08
Total: 146417 217997 191221 201683 179262 116362
Unique: 8861 10013 9579 9557 9495 7598
Median: 4 9 8 8 7 4
Breakdown for current month:
(Total of unique logins will be less than the sum of the sources,
since each source login only gets counted once.)
Total logins for four week period ending: Jun 28, 2008 04:55
116362 ( other 87597 quickstation 13929 cluster 14836 )
Unique logins for four week period:
7598 ( other 4982 quickstation 3728 cluster 2828 )
Median logins for four week period:
4 ( other 3 quickstation 2 cluster 2 )
