[8065] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Countdown to release; e-mail check-in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Aug 6 09:08:30 2014
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: "release-team\@mit.edu" <release-team@MIT.EDU>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri\, 01 Aug 2014 15\:02\:14 -0000."
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I'm afraid I don't have a date for the dialups yet. I'm hoping for sometime between the 11th and 19th inclusive, but need to check that with both people and other calendars before committing to it.
Another issue that was recently brought to my attention is that barnowl in the barnowl locker doesn't work on Trusty. I forwarded the issue to barnowl-locker last night, but think it's a stupid issue that a recompile is likely to fix.
Jonathon
Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> As far as I know, we’re on track for Monday Aug 11 for release. I’m going to flip the “early” bits today, which will mean another 10 machines or so (list sent to acis-team last week) will auto-upgrade over the weekend. (I will be around and checking on things, but the impact is low.
>
> Remaining timeline:
>
> - Today at 5pm: Freeze. Nothing goes to production, except for bug fixes actively impacting usability, between now and Aug 18.
> - By Tuesday at 10am: Mail to release-announce with final details, and an estimated date for the dialups (jweiss?)
> - Monday, Aug 11: Flip the switch, and let machines upgrade overnight.
>
> Let’s do e-mail check-in this week, and meet on 8/8 at 2pm (I will send an invite in Exchange). (2pm works around achernya’s availability; let me know if anyone else has conflicts). I think in general, going forward, I’d prefer to move our standing meeting time to 2pm.
>
> Outstanding issues:
> - Force logout/unlock screen is klunky:
> — LightDM may be able to give us a knob to disable switch-user functionality at the display manager level, so that would be a win, but we’d also loose the only hook we have to force-logout a user.
> — An upcoming rewrite of the greeter should also fix some of the UI pains
>
> Anything else I’m missing?
>
> -Jon
