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Re: Natty Alpha announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Jun 27 23:05:38 2011
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:05:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: "release-team@mit.edu Team" <release-team@mit.edu>
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Sounds pretty reasonable.
You may want to phrase DKMS in a way that positions it as more reliable
regarding upgrades as opposed to just a feature for people who compile
their own kernels that slows things down for everyone else, which is
almost what it reads like now.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> I plan to send the following on Wednesday evening. Feedback
> appreciated. Around 3pm that day, I'd like to push everything
> openafs-related to production, to give us time to ensure the 4pm and 6pm
> autodebathenificator runs are happy. I'll then send the mail below
> (which does not include release-announce, as you can see). I will send
> the beta and release messages there, however.
>
>
> To: testers, debathena-announce
> Subject: Natty Alpha release; OpenAFS changes
>
> Hello,
>
> The Athena Release Team is pleased to announce the alpha release of
> Debathena Natty. As the name implies, this is an alpha-quality release
> and should be used for testing only at this point. Network-based
> installation will be available shortly, but for now the supported
> installation method is to install Ubuntu Natty (11.04) and then use the
> install-debathena.sh script available from http://debathena.mit.edu.
> At this point, we believe all the major metapackages except
> debathena-cluster are installable. If you do participate in testing,
> please subscribe to the testers@mit.edu mailing list
> (https://groups.mit.edu/webmoira/list/testers) and send your
> testing-related questions and feedback to that list.
>
> We're also taking this opportunity to switch to Dynamic Kernel Module
> Support (DKMS) for OpenAFS on distributions that support it (Lucid,
> Maverick, Natty, Lenny, and Squeeze). DKMS takes care of automatically
> building new kernel modules when you install a new kernel. This may
> make the first reboot after installing a new kernel a little slower, but
> ensures that the OpenAFS kernel module will always be available, even if
> you build your own kernels.
>
> If you have questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
>
> Jonathan Reed
> For the Athena Release Team
