[3003] in Release_Engineering
Re: Old tapes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Sun Apr 11 18:33:31 1993
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 18:33:25 -0400
To: epeisach@MIT.EDU
Cc: builder@MIT.EDU, rel-eng@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ezra Peisach's message of Sun, 11 Apr 93 18:02:45 EDT,
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
I'd rather get rid of junk tapes than try to accomodate them.
Scribe: I don't know who is really dealing with that. The Scribe tapes
and license files have typically been read in by us, and we still deal
with the scribe.sit file, which is on the packs.
Anyway, the only versions of Scribe that we have online are v6 and v7.
I'll talk to f_l about all versions < v6, with the possible exception of
v3, since that may have source.
Another tape rack? I think that two overfull tape racks is quite
indicative that we have a lot of junk. Currently the only people who
have any clue as to what we have are you and I. (Remember the dumps of
paz, cirocco, and phobos? or paris:/mit/tex? That wasn't in my first
pass listing since those were final archives.)
Here are some more for consideration:
paris:/mit/tex
All /srvd's and /urvd's (except if they are w/ release sources)
We have an entire rack of TK50's that I haven't even begun to sort
through. There are LOTs of Saber tapes - what versions do we want?
Do we care about the 90+ installation floppies for AIX 1.2?
We also have a lot of other old tapes in a box - NAG (which is being
completely desupported, for example). A couple of each is reasonable,
but every version of the old software to which we are never going to
refer to is ridiculous. Housecleaning every couple years is probably a
good idea (Ezra and I identified 75+ tapes that were junk a couple years
ago).
-Richard
