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3 March 2009 Athena Release Team Status Report
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From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:46:53 -0500
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Team Name: Athena Release Team
Report Date: 3 March 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:
DELAYED: Decide what we want to do about possible Athena VMware image
offering.
DROPPED: 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.
PROGRESS: wdc will shepherd implementing the quickstation bugme and
other
session changes for Athena 10 at high priority.
PROGRESS: jdreed will cause the cut-over to bash as default shell.
DONE: wdc and amb will plan longer term fix to ATN-13
Production release will be based on Jaunty which contains long-term
fix.
DONE: jdreed will inventory users with UID/GID lower than 2000.
PROGRESS: jdreed will draft apt write access guidelines in
collaboration with
others.
DONE: jweiss will review the Athena Dialup situation with Ops.
DELAYED: rbasch will work on pre-login kiosk mode support for athena 10.
PROGRESS: jdreed will do testing of the third party software
metapackage.
DONE: geofft and broder will work the USB/CD problem (ATN-20)
DONE: geofft will implement and rbasch will roll out 2-line fix for user
switching hangup.
PROGRESS: wdc and jdreed will go to W20 and install some Athena 10
systems.
Community Milestones Met:
Other Accomplishments:
* wdc and andersk found and crafted fixes for a raft of problems with
VMware tools under Ubuntu 8.10.
* tabbott ran a hackathon that made the technical changes necessary
for the athena10/debathena merge.
* jdreed crafted the debathena.mit.edu/beta web site that will become
the user first contact with Debathena.
* jdreed crafted appropriate publicity for Early cluster systems:
Cluster poster for door, system poster, and a help doc to place near
each system.
* rbasch resolved ATN-39: logout in gnome terminal (Blocker to
Production)
* rbasch resolved ATN-27 "Log Out" button on gnome-screensaver
sometimes doesn't work
* wdc opened upstream bugs for some things we're working around.
* rbasch opened upstream bug for ATN-27
* amb shepherded athena10.mit.edu IP address change.
* amb made refinements to debathena-thirdparty package
* amb made refinements to Athena 10 installer script.
* jdreed migrated Athena 10 stock answers to hermes.
* alexp did much testing.
* broder made changes to machtype and athinfo to make it display
relevant Athena 10 info.
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: wdc will shepherd implementing the quickstation bugme.
OLD: jdreed will cause the cut-over to bash as default shell.
OLD: jdreed will draft apt write access guidelines in collaboration with
others.
OLD: rbasch will work on pre-login kiosk mode support for athena 10.
OLD: jdreed will do testing of the debathena-thirdparty software
metapackage.
OLD: wdc and jdreed will go to W20, 12, 56, 66 and install some
Athena 10 systems.
NEW: jdreed will investigate resolution to ATN-45 (Look into changing
the default zephyr windowgram client to something libnotify-based)
NEW: jdreed re-points content on athena10.mit.edu web site to
debathena.mit.edu/beta
NEW: amb updates athena10.mit.edu repo to push out migration to
debathena.mit.edu repo.
NEW: jdreed and alexp will review debathena-thirdparty and prune
superfluous stuff.
NEW: wdc and jdreed shepherd final debug of debathena-thirdparty
NEW: tabbott changes counterlog to more broadly report debathena
installs to wslogger.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Athena 10 Early Cluster deployment re-targeted for Wed 4 March 2009.
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 09/08 10/08 11/08 12/08 01/09 02/09 Delta
LINUX 827 842 819 809 809 839 +30
SUN 193 167 155 147 145 142 -3
Count of systems registered for RHN (Non Athena update):
Date 09/08 10/08 11/08 12/08 01/09 02/09 Delta
Total 2360 2452 2493 2411 2473 +62
Inactive 1469 1613 1672 1562 1593 +31
Active 891 839 821 849 880 +31
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: 09/08 10/08 11/08 12/08 01/09 02/09
Total: 214085 196933 191877 244246 124846 190073
Unique: 10764 10006 9961 10560 8420 9654
Median: 8 8 8 8 4 8
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 Feb 28 04:56
190073 ( quickstation 32098 cluster 54396 other 103579 )
Unique logins for four week period:
9654 ( quickstation 5667 cluster 5678 other 6486 )
Median logins for four week period:
8 ( quickstation 3 cluster 6 other 3 )
