[33] in Layered Athena
Meeting minutes 24 AUG 93
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Tue Aug 24 15:27:49 1993
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 15:25:36 EDT
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: layered-athena@Athena.MIT.EDU
Attending: Reid, Young, Ted, Carla, Kevin, Mark R.
Status:
* Code is done, modulo a couple of features and a short list of known bugs
* The managers & directors met last week to discuss policy. We will
not have to do anything special with Layered Athena to deal with third
party software or licensing fees. They grouped SW into 3 classes:
stuff with a full MIT-wide site license (no issue), stuff with limited
license which comes with a license server (we can program the license
server to restrict for us, independantly of whether the WS are running
Full or Layered Athena), and stuff with limited licenses that does not
have a license server. This last category is the troublesome one, but
we expect to have a way to control it by the end of the year anyway,
and Layered Athena does not provide any new risk, just a little more
exposure to an old one.
TESTING
Who: The MCC has not directly identified any potential testers. We
will announce testing to the cluster managers, and solicit volunteers
there. There are also potential testers in ASD, as well as one
workstation in B11, and possibly one in the test cluster here. We
want to limit the number of sites testing this to and handfull so that
Mark R. can provide the initial support before the regular consultants
are brought up to speed.
When: We will target testing to start the week of Sept 20th. This
will give us time to get documentation written, get the known bugs
out, and get past the fall startup. We will start advertising for
testers now, and hold another team meeting shortly before we start
testing.
Support:
Docs: We will have several pages of documentation ready for testing.
This will describe how to install Layered Athena, and what's in the
various subsets.
Help: Testers will be instructed to use the private workstation topic
in OLC to ask questions. Mark R. will field these questions until we
can hold some training for consultants, and build up a list of stock
answers. We will invite someone from the Network Help desk to join
the team so that they know what's going on, as they may get some
questions as well.
Bugs: With the new bug-tracking system in place, all bugs are supposed
to be reported to bugs@mit.edu. Does that include beta testing?
We'll ask the Scarab team for advice. We will send summaries of
reported bugs to the layered-athena list once we are testing.
Logging: we'll setup the central site that collects individual
workstation status on one of the discuss servers for now.
Where is the project going? After 6 weeks to 2 months of testing, the
team should evaluate the project. Possible directions are going to
full release with what we've been testing, adding more functionality
to the implementation, or doing ports on other platforms. We should
make a recommendation to the managers in late fall.
NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, 15 Sept 93, 2-3pm in E40-316.
