[715] in athena10
Re: Dash sunset effort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Dec 9 00:07:16 2008
Message-Id: <200812090502.mB952n2l032073@vorpal-blade.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>,
athena10@mit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:29:18 EST."
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:02:49 -0500
Well, I was thinking about making a self-depricating comment about my
reading comprehension skills, but if you missed it too, then yeah,
adding something to the first paragraph is definately called for.
Jonathon
> 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,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
