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Re: Countdown to release; e-mail check-in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Aug 6 18:53:48 2014
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed\, 06 Aug 2014 13\:10\:33 -0000."
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Yeah, I believe we can commit to before reg day. I hope to have a specific day picked by the end of the week.
Jonathon
Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> I don’t need an exact date per se. Can we commit to “before reg day”?
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> On Aug 6, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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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.
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> > 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.
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> > Jonathon
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> > Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> >> Remaining timeline:
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> >> - 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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
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> >> Anything else I’m missing?
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> >> -Jon
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