[6949] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Release Team Agenda, Friday 9/10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Prengel)
Tue Sep 7 21:53:48 2010
From: Alex Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
"release-team@mit.edu"
<release-team@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:53:39 -0400
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On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 19:55 -0400, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 13:42 -0400, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> > > Here's what I have on the agenda. If you want to add something, please reply-all:
> >
> > Can we have a 32 bit dialup for things that don't work on 64? (ProE at
> > the moment, though other situations are likely to come up).
>
> I won't be able to be at the meeting this week, because it is on Rosh
> HaShanna.
>
> That said I have some concerns about this. The two things that come
> to mind are: 1) that the dialups are generally not supposed to be for
> computationally intensive work, and I'm a little worried about
> pointing all ProE users at them (especially if there's only one) and
> 2) This would result in us having to maintain two different dialup
> configurations long term, which while it doesn't quite double the
> amount of work required, it comes really close. We can probably
> arrange something short term (it's not like I've had time to upgrade
> the dialups to lucid yet anyway), but what sort of timeframe were you
> expecting to need this for?
For as long as we can keep it running and users need to use it. There is
low but ongoing usage (maybe 10-30 launches a month). At least one user
has complained that he needs to use it and now can't any more. The
product is orphaned as the vendor dropped Linux several years ago. I
can't be more specific- I don't know of any courses or faculty that rely
on this, but various individual users do. Garry determined a while back
that we can't make it work on 64 bit machines.
Alex
