[6446] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes from 9/25 meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Sep 25 15:27:42 2009
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> - Coming up with a project plan for ISDA's involvement in Athena
> going forward (specifically, allocation of Andrew and Bob's time).
> Note that with Andrew out sick, we may not be able to completely
> finish this agenda item today.
It's important to document not only resources in terms of hours or
percentage, but also that some resources cannot be subdivided (ie: 40%
of one person != 10% of 4 people). Looking at our work for Intrepid
and Karmic will be a good indicator of work in general, because they
both had some large changes. We should document the importance of
not missing the releases and why we didn't go with LTS-only. We
should document 3 levels of involvement: minimal, ideal, and steady-
state. Also document pre-Debathena: minimal and healthy development.
ACTION ITEM: jdreed will draft new wiki page for this plan and send
mail.
> - Discussion of future SIPB involvement (now that Evan and Geoff are
> seniors)
Prospectives are being actively recruited. 1.5 year projection looks
good.
ACTION ITEM: SIPB will continue recruiting.
ACTION ITEM: Evan and Geoff will plan on being here for M. Eng.
> - Discussion of community response to Debathena deployments (this is
> one time when we do want anecdotal evidence, so please bring any you
> may have)
Implement one-time popup to solicit feedback. We should usability
test the feedback piece, including on quickstations, clusters, -
workstation, etc.
ACTION ITEM: jdreed will draft an Ask SIPB column.
> - Brainstorming about the future of Quickstations.
We will restore FF address bar and create a gdm button that launches
it. If possible we will preload FF. In the future look into removing
login chroots on qucikstations.
ACTION ITEM: rbasch will re-enable address bar.
ACTION ITEM: Someone will look at adding a gdm button.
> - Discussion of proposed changes to -thirdparty package
White ballot.
ACTION ITEM: Alex will implement his changes.
> - Other business.
jhamrick should be given svn access.
ACTION ITEM: rbasch will add her to the athena-commiters list.
broder is working on metrics code.
Internationalization (Japanese chars): Install language-support-input-
* packages.
ACTION ITEM: broder will create debathena-language-support metapackage
and add it to workstation and higher.
Cluster combo is changing on Oct 1.
ACTION ITEM: jweiss will set a GMOTD.
Should we spam every student at MIT about Windows 7 being available
for free later this year? Probably not.
