[30] in Layered Athena
Meeting minutes 27 May 93
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Fri May 28 14:15:09 1993
Date: Fri, 28 May 93 14:14:38 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: layered-athena@Athena.MIT.EDU
Present: Carla, JJ, Young, Ted, Kevin, Mark
Status report:
The revised design document has been done and is awaiting TRB
approval. We are moving forward assuming that the TRB will approve it
if/when they ever meet.
The basic client is mostly complete. I'm getting a maxine deployed
tomorrow for testing. I hope to have it ready for friendly test in
3-4 weeks. I expect some friendly testing in July, beta in August,
and we'll be ready to go live in September. I hope to have this
together in time to put the necessary config files on the new Ultrix
system pack so that the regular 7.6 syspack will also be a Layered
Athena syspack.
Support plan:
We like Carla's proposed plan.
Consultants want basic training on Layered Athena in time for beta
test, i.e. in early July. Network help desk and other support staff
will need training in August before deployment.
The VRC is concerned about this because they charge for consulting
services. However, people will still need to get Ultrix from
somewhere, so we should send them to the VRC for that. Then CSS
consulting will help them with questions about installing layered
athena, and if someone must visit them, we'll coordinate with system
support.
How's the policy on charging for third party software coming along?
The target audience for phase I of Layered Athena is mostly known:
Isolated privately owned DECstations and some labs or department
clusters. Most of these potential customers are not currently running
Athena, although there may be a few who switch from full athena to
layered athena.
There was a question about whether someone using the athena startup
script without running the athena login would use all of the standard
dotfiles or not. This hasn't been completely designed yet, but the
answer is most likely no.
The next team meeting will be shortly before we're ready to start
testing, unless something unexpected comes up. We expect this to be
in late June. Look for an email announcement.
-Mark
