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Re: time to desupport?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Thu Oct 26 03:47:54 2000
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To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:23:02 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:47:44 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> It's my impression that there isn't that much remaining to keep us
> from declaring our installer to be production, but I agree that this
> needs to happen before we can announce a desupport date.
Here's the list as I know it:
- fix help messages in graphical mode to not be blatantly wrong
- pull up a patch release that fixes the "SYNCCONF is omitted from
rc.conf" bug, or else implement a work around in the installer.
- make ftp and http installs work
- update docs to address off-campus installation issues
- incorporate assorted suggestions into the docs
- make sure the PWOG is up to date for linux (not really our problem,
but we reference it all over the place, and it would be nice)
- document taking updates better
Some, but not all of this is in my court, and I've been lame lately.
I'm sort of worried by the fact that register_ws tends to get more than
one peice of mail per machine. It's seeming like most of our users are
failing to install successfully the first time. I don't know if
there's anything we can do about this, though.
> Pushing to the end of IAP is fine with me; we might want to couple
> this with an installing Linux-Athena class offered during IAP for people
> who need to upgrade their existing installations. I know Camilla had
> talked about this with me at some point. Camilla, can you comment?
I'd been thinking about doing something, but I'm becoming increasingly
dubious. I just don't think I can stand up in front of a group of
people and impart useful information about the linux installer.
Would it be useful/desirable to advertize (posters, whatever) that IAP
is a good time to learn about linux, and suggest that people come by
the office if they have questions?
I just can't think of a way to deal with installation questions in some
way that isn't one on one.
-Camilla
