[6415] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes* of 8/18 meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Aug 19 17:15:57 2009
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* May not actually be detailed enough to count as actual minutes.
1) Review of tickets
We reviewed tickets in Trac. Yay.
2) Metrics
IS&T management (and MIT higher-ups) desperately wants an answer to
the question "What are the students using Athena for?". Anecdotal
answers are not acceptable, since IS&T management hears a lot of
anecdotal answers from, e.g. Sloan students, who say that they never
use Athena, or only use it for checking e-mail. We're considering
some sort of survey, but we'd like real data. We recognize there are
privacy concerns here and we should address those as much as
possible. No user-identifiable information should be collected.
There is discussion about changing the chroots to enable atime and
using atime to determine what binaries were used during a session.
For a first approach, we'd like to divide usage into "Email", "Web",
"Office Software", "Academic Software" (ie: some stuff from -
thirdparty), "Other" (and possibly "Development"). We are aware
that "Web" cannot differentiate between, say, Stellar, OWA, or Slashdot.
3) Other business
- OpenAFS: It kind of sucked when we went to go reinstall machines
and there were no OpenAFS modules available for the newest kernel
because they didn't get moved into production. We think we should
probably stick new OpenAFS modules into production. While this makes
some people nervous, it makes them even more nervous to have the
installation fail or have Ubuntu attempt to downgrade the kernel.
