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Enterprise Print March Status Report

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Fri Apr 5 19:32:33 2002

Message-Id: <200204060031.TAA20647@pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu>
Date:         Fri, 05 Apr 02 19:30:54 EST
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: Roger A Roach <RAR@MIT.EDU>, delivery@MIT.EDU
cc: Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>


Project Name:      Enterprise Printing Delivery Project
Team Members:      Mary Ellen Bushnell, Rocklyn Clarke, Lynne Durland &
                   Dave Lambert
Report Date:       4/05/2002
Project Notebook:  http://web.mit.edu/is/delivery/enterprint/

Accomplishments for the past period:
- Installed web interface files on Plunder
- Garry Zacheiss installed LPRng on Plunder
- Met with Gill Emmons and Jay Nickerson for an IPM training session
- Sent request to IBM for a bug fix
- Continued work on banner pages and blanket cost object
- ASST cleaned up pending documentation issues on Windsurf

Goals for the coming period:
- Install revisions to the job submitter database to handle queue defaults
- Make IPM queues pseudo hosts
- Move application cron files to ASST standard location
- Get Apache auto started on Plunder
- Suck Rocklyn's brain dry and push the info into Lynne's head
- Finalize banner page and blanket cost object work
- Get delivery address on banner page on postscript printers (carryover)
- Create baseline usage report from current mainframe data for the
  financial model (carryover)
- ASST & Miki will install Apache w/ .htaccess mods installed on
  Plunder (carryover)
- Fix large file AIX default configuration problem with ASST (carryover)
- Add link to job format information in job listing (carryover)
- Continue documenting the system maintenance procedures (ongoing)
- Cleanup the project notebook

Issues:
 The project is scheduled to be completed at the end of the next
 reporting period.

Key learnings:
 None

Team dynamics:
 Fine but we will all miss Rocklyn very much.  We plan to hold a
 project completion celebration in Maui.  ;)

Additional comments:
 None

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