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10 February 2009 Athena Release Team Status Report
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Tue Feb 10 14:39:41 2009
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Team Name: Athena Release Team
Report Date: 10 February 2009
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 new and current Athena releases.
Last Month's goals:
TABLED: Decide what we want to do about possible Athena VMware image
offering.
DELAYED: 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.
DONE: amb will develop the comprehensive Cluster Installer for Athena 10
at medium priority.
PROGRESS: wdc will shepherd implementing the quickstation bugme and
other
session changes for Athena 10 at high priority.
DONE: wdc will research new names for session types, working to resolve
https://jira.mit.edu/jira/browse/ATN-1
DONE: wdc will investigate that it's ok policy to offer Firefox in an
Athena cluster pre-login mode.
DONE: If wdc determines its ok, rbasch will investigate a pre-login
option to offer Firefox in a kiosk mode.
DONE: jweiss or jdreed will talk to zacheiss about getting the Athena
Register account functioning as a fallback for no "Register for an
Athena Account" in Athena 10.
Community Milestones Met:
Athena Patch release targeted for IAP containing: Video power save
patch, Firefox 3.
Other Accomplishments:
* alexp looked into converting various software lockers to stop using
the setup command. It looks like there's a better solution:
compatibility setup support to work with tcsh.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of new and current Athena releases.
OLD: Decide what we want to do about possible Athena VMware image
offering.
OLD: 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.
OLD: wdc will shepherd implementing the quickstation bugme and other
session changes for Athena 10 at high priority.
NEW: jdreed will cause the cut-over to bash as default shell.
NEW: wdc and amb will plan longer term fix to ATN-13
NEW: jdreed will inventory users with UID/GID lower than 2000.
NEW: jdreed will draft apt write access guidelines in collaboration with
others.
NEW: jweiss will review the Athena Dialup situation with Ops.
NEW: rbasch will work on pre-login kiosk mode support for athena 10.
NEW: jdreed will do testing of the third party software metapackage.
NEW: geofft and broder will work the USB/CD problem (ATN-20)
NEW: geofft will implement and rbasch will roll out 2-line fix for user
switching hangup.
NEW: wdc and jdreed will go to W20 and install some Athena 10 systems.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Patch release as needed.
Issues:
The procedure for adding another suite to Athena 10 is "rarely
performed, and the infrastructure for it is imperfect."
Linux has standardized on the bash command shell, not the tcsh command
shell heretofore the Athena Standard. After much discussion and having
tested full support of bash, the default shell for newly created Athena
accounts should change from tcsh to bash starting on or about January 1,
2009. (Rememeber to notify athena-rcc of the change when it happens.)
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 08/08 09/08 10/08 11/08 12/08 01/09 Delta
LINUX 763 827 842 819 809 809 +0
SUN 213 193 167 155 147 145 -2
Count of systems registered for RHN (Non Athena update):
Date 08/08 09/08 10/08 11/08 12/08 01/09 Delta
Total 2295 2360 2452 2493 2411 -82
Inactive 1419 1469 1613 1672 1562 -110
Active 876 891 839 821 849 +28
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.
Date: 08/08 09/08 10/08 11/08 12/08 01/08
Total: 117030 214085 196933 191877 244246 124846
Unique: 8604 10764 10006 9961 10560 8420
Median: 3 8 8 8 8 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 Jan 31 04:58
124846 ( quickstation 19735 cluster 21548 other 83563 )
Unique logins for four week period:
8420 ( quickstation 4519 cluster 3734 other 5147 )
Median logins for four week period:
4 ( quickstation 2 cluster 3 other 3 )
