[713] in athena10
Re: Dash sunset effort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Dec 8 17:12:00 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200812082153.mB8LrV72005375@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:09:19 -0500
Well, I do say "Athena 9.4 will remain the default version in the
public Athena clusters through the summer of 2009.", but I can be
more explicit in the first paragraph.
-Jon
On Dec 8, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
> This makes it sound like all cluster machines will be upgraded to
> athena10 over IAP which I don't beleive is the case. Perhaps adding
> "to select cluster workstations" to the first sentence of the first
> paragraph would help.
>
> Jonathon
>
>
>
>>
>> On Dec 2, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>>
>>> There's also skip_dash and skip_xlogout. I can't remember what we
>>> decided about Dash - are we completely de-supporting it? If so, we
>>> should probably make some outreach to current Dash users. I will
>>> attempt to crawl AFS and get a list of people who
>>> have .athena_dash_interface files.
>>>
>>
>> There are 183 accounts with ~/.athena_dash_interface. I think that's
>> a small enough number that we should just send them mail, and not
>> bother including anything in the startup scripts that checks for
>> ~/.athena_dash_interface and annoys the user via zenity.
>>
>> Unless there are any objections, I plan on sending the following e-
>> mail out in the next 2 weeks. Feel free to suggest edits to the
>> text.
>>
>> -------------------
>>
>> Subject: Changes to Athena Graphical Login Environment
>>
>> Dear _________
>>
>> During IAP, Information Services & Technology will release the newest
>> version of Athena: Athena 10. Athena 10 will be noticeably different
>> from previous releases of Athena, and many legacy features of Athena
>> have been removed, including the "Athena Dashboard" ("Dash")
>> environment.
>>
>> When Athena 9.0 was released in June 2001, the Dash interface was
>> replaced with a new GNOME-based interface. At the time, users could
>> configure their account to continue using Dash, and your account is
>> in
>> this category. The Dash interface will no longer be available in
>> Athena 10, and users will instead see a GNOME-like interface. We
>> apologize for any inconvenience.
>>
>> No action is required on your part for this change to take effect --
>> the intent of this e-mail is to inform you of this upcoming change to
>> Athena. This change only applies to Athena 10 machines -- if you
>> use
>> any Athena 9.4 (or earlier) machine, you will still be able to use
>> the
>> Dash interface. Athena 9.4 will remain the default version in the
>> public Athena clusters through the summer of 2009.
>>
>> For more information on Athena 10, please see http://athena10.mit.edu
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>>
>
>
