[8068] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Countdown to release; e-mail check-in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Aug 7 18:27:20 2014
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>,
"release-team\@mit.edu" <release-team@MIT.EDU>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed\, 06 Aug 2014 18\:53\:39 -0400."
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I'm currently looking at Thursday 8/14 at around 1pm for the
athena.dialup.mit.edu upgrade. This will simply be a DNS change to
point athena.dialup.mit.edu (and ftp.dialup, etc., etc.) at the new
machines. Existing connections will not be touched at this time.
Do you see any problems with this? I assume people will be around all
week to deal with any emergencies that crop up after the cluster
upgrades anyway.
Jonathon
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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.
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> Jonathon
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> Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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> > 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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