[765] in Athena User Interface
Athena User Interface project; April 2001
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon May 14 00:26:11 2001
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 00:26:08 -0400
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From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
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CC: aui@mit.edu
Project Name: Athena User Interface Project
Project Leader: Andrew Boardman
Report Date: 11 May 2001
Project URL: http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/
Accomplishments Past Period:
- Released Athena 9.0 alpha version, allowing general usage of the
AUI/9.0 environment.
- Met with usability team to talk about (among other things) what they'd
like to see in future Athena releases.
- Training and Publications is now in the thick of documenting 9.0.
Goals for Next Period:
- Continue Work on the Athena 9.0 release in general. (Not, strictly
speaking, completely part of AUI, but the line is blurry, and for the
most part immaterial.)
- Wrap up project documentation before we forget why we did everything.
- Do a final security assesment for Athena 9.0.
- Formal end of project and handoff of maintenance to Athena release team?
Key Learnings:
- Whereever you go, there you are. Deal with it.
Issues:
- AUI/Athena development suffers from more work then people to do it, and
the scope of AUI has suffered as a result. Nautilus (the GNOME file
manager) is dead in the water for 9.0, despite a great desire for it in
many quarters.
- There are a lot of changes and a lot of new code for Athena in AUI.
We wonder how well we can test it before September.
Team Dynamics:
- OK, modulo overload from staffing issues mentioned above.
