[714] in athena10
Re: Dash sunset effort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Mon Dec 8 17:32:50 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:29:18 -0500
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
I too missed the later statement about Athena 9 remaining the
default, so I guess tweaking the first paragraph is called for. How
about adding "to early adopters".
I'd suggest a change of focus to more actively encourage the dash
holdouts to change. Something like:
Because support for dash is going away, you are encouraged to switch
to the current GNOME-based user interface. You can do this by
issuing the "Re-enable GNOME" command in the Dash sub-menu of Dash.
-Bill
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On Dec 8, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
