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Minutes of Release Team meeting today, N42-203, 2pm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Sep 8 15:34:02 2009
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Agenda:
1) Metapackage policy
People will review the policy (see #213). We will also need to start
caring about architectures. This leads to a discussion of 64-bit
Athena in the clusters. It is decided that we will not care about
that until the HPs go away. There is no upgrade path between
architectures, so 64-bit clusters would require reinstalls.
2) Firefox 3.5
Some people requested firefox 3.5. We will likely punt this until
Karmic, though investigation is required to determine how well it
coexists with FF 3.0 and what, if any, changes are made to system or
per-user defaults.
3) Schedule meetings for fall term
We will meet every other Friday at 2, starting Sept 25.
4) Karmic is Koming
There will be no krb4 support in Karmic. This is a problem for mail
clients and for liblocker. jdreed will contact mvsilis about
migrating the po15 config to other mail servers (GSSAPI on
poNN.mail.mit.edu; no change to poNN.mit.edu).
5) Metrics
Evan will write code. We are using a new kernel mechanism to collect
data on each exec(). jweiss will ponder privacy concerns related to
transport protocols.
6) geofft's root-related things.
Are we losing data out of /var/log? We should bind-mount it.
Can we punt su in IAP, possibly changing su to say "Don't do this, use
sudo -i instead"?
7) Trac review
We reviewed tickets. It was noted that the number of tickets
milestoned for IAP 2010 is ... ambitious.
