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Re: upgrading next5 and next6 to Lucid

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sun Jun 20 20:27:20 2010

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:27:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Jonathan Reed wrote:

> These totally need a prominent sign saying something to the effect of 
> "These machines are running a new release of Athena for testing.  If you 
> run into problems on these machines ONLY, please email 
> debathena@mit.edu.  Please be sure to include the hostname of the 
> machine."

I have a sign to that effect; see the last page of 
/mit/geofft/next/nextcluster.odt. (Yes, the other signs are out of date to 
varying extents.) I'll probably put even louder signage on them for Lucid.

> And yes, my long-term plan is to get some beta machines out there, 
> probably in W20 and 56 or 12.

Well, it would be nice to do this for the Lucid release if possible.

> When are you officially out of Next?

June 30. I'll send mail to hesreq shortly before then.

-- 
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu

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