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6 August 2008 Athena Release Team Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Aug 6 16:23:58 2008
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Team Name: Athena Release Team
Report Date: 6 August 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.
DONE: Develop Athena10 solution for time synchronization against
time.mit.edu (assigned to amb.)
DONE: 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.
DONE: Integrate alpine into Athena 10 as replacement for Athena pine.
Community Milestones Met:
Other Accomplishments:
* Prepared 9.4.48 patch release to improve DNS cache security, to update
Red Hat OS, Firefox, JDK, and Solaris.
* Worked on Athena 10 documentation.
* Trained amb and rbasch to do 9.4 patch releases.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
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: Distribute updated version of Athena 9.4 installer.
NEW: Complete Athena 10 Preview Documentation.
NEW: Update Solaris mini-root to avoid use of stub .mit.edu zone so that
Solaris installs to continue to work if MIT name service stops
supporting TCP access.
NEW: Implement feature items for IAP Cluster pilot deployment of Athena
10.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Deploy new PXE image.
Patch release containing improved DNS cache security, updates to Red Hat
OS, Firefox, JDK, and Solaris. Target August 11 deployment.
Issues:
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.
SYSTYPE 02/08 03/08 04/08 05/08 6/08 07/08 Delta
LINUX 834 800 789 798 762 740 -22
SUN 233 235 231 229 222 210 -12
Count of systems registered for RHN (Non Athena update):
Date 02/08 03/08 04/08 05/08 06/08 07/08 Delta
Total 1883 1951 2052 2100 2136 2249 +113
Inactive 989 1046 1185 1223 1276 1388 +112
Active 894 905 867 877 860 861 +1
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: 02/08 03/08 04/08 05/08 06/08 07/08
Total: 217997 191221 201683 179262 116362 123397
Unique: 10013 9579 9557 9495 7598 6837
Median: 9 8 8 7 4 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 Aug 2, 2008 04:59
123397 ( other 82751 quickstation 14524 cluster 26122 )
Unique logins for four week period:
6837 ( other 4448 quickstation 3178 cluster 2678 )
Median logins for four week period:
4 ( other 3 quickstation 2 cluster 3 )
