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Decisions from Athena Release Team.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Nov 5 17:04:50 2008
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Here are decisions related to Athena 10 made by the Athena Release Team
at today's meeting:
Athena 10 will attempt to standardize on the 6 month rather than the LTS
release:
Ubuntu x.10 release for Athena in January
Ubuntu x.4 release for Athena over the Summer.
We will finish Athena 10 under 8.04, and attempt to go to 8.10
for January.
Alex Prengel will maintain a debathena-cluster-thirdparty
metapackage (rather than adding to the debathena-cluster-software
package). We'll show him how to do this, and will leave as a future
implementation detail whether or not that metapackage will be
subdivided, for example debathena-cluster-math.
The Athena10 package mirror (not yet in existence), normally takes all
upstream changes automatically. During a blackout period between drop
date and the end of Final Exams, only explicitly chosen changes are
brought over.
"Workstation" is pointed at the IS&T Athena10 mirror, so it will get
blackouts.
With regards to quickstations: Putting the counter up and keeping it
visible is the highest priority. An annoy-o-gram is desirable, but
social pressure can serve equally well as an annoy-o-gram.
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