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Comment: Harmonize timeline with what is in Daptiv and in Tech Plan

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  • DONE July 2007 to January 2008: Pre-planning, and crafting of baseline functional specification.
    • Best efforts resourcing for project
    • Athena use case analysis.
    • Feature set determination.
    • Evaluate candidate baseline Linux distribution – possible successor to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
  • DONE January 2008 Initiate collaboration with Debathena SIPB project.
  • DONE January 2008 Shift from best-efforts to scheduled resourcing.
  • DONE February 2008 Create necessary development infrastructure.
  • January 2008 to 30 April 2008 Work to Core Milestone: The fundamental building blocks of the Athena environment are in place (AFS, login, incremental updates, etc).
  • January 2008 - 30 June 2008 Work to Basic Functionality Milestone: The high-profile Athena applications are in place (Firefox, email, etc.) Biggest scheduling issue: email clients.
  • January 2008 to: 15 August 2008 Work to Athena 10 Preview deliverable - August 2008 Develop Athena 10 functional deliverables.15 August 2008 Athena 10 Preview suitable for experimentation with by incoming freshmen.
  • 15 August 2008 to 1 October 2008 Work to Cluster Milestone: Self-maintenance features and GNOME modifications necessary for cluster machine deployments are in place. The updater is complete. Biggest scheduling issue: The updater.
  • 1 October 2008 - 1 November 2008 Work to Feature Complete Milestone: Remaining release features are completed except for rearchitected printing. The installer is complete. System release notes are complete. Backward compatibility issues are substantially resolved. Biggest scheduling issue: The installer.
  • 1 October 2008 - 1 November 2008 Beta testing.
  • 1 November 2008 - 1 December 2008 Work to Full Deployment Readiness Milestone: Early release is complete and Athena 10 is ready to be released to all cluster machines November 2008 Development and refinement of new Athena installer and update system to enable Cluster deployment of Athena 10 modules as a complete turn-key system.
  • January 2009 - May 2009 Testing and refinement to make sure Athena 10 meets or exceeds expectations of Athena 9 users.
  • 1 July 2009 Full roll out to Athena Clusters.
  • August 1 July 2009 - 15 October 2009 Follow-up, and confirmation that Athena 10 has successfully rolled out and replaces Athena 9.