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This plan is evolving and subject to change.
- Infrastructure
- An A high availability apt repository for the Athena10 packages maintained by Athena Server Operations is required. This repository would replace the present AFS to ftp translator solution which does not scale to production requirements.
- An A high availability apt repository mirror for Ubuntu maintained by Athena Server Operations is required for production roll-out and ongling support of Athena10. (Isolates MIT from outages. Allows brief freezes if necessary.)
- An IS&T supported implementation of the SIPB cups.mit.edu prototype is required for production roll-out of the CUPS-based Athena10 printing infrastructure.
- A PXE-based installer for Cluster installs.
- Documentation
- PWOG updated to speak of Workstation vs Cluster instead of Public vs Private.
- Release notes.
- What is in Athena (which documents the few coarse grained packages/installers)
- Ad copy on what is Athena 10.
- How to install Athena 10 on your private machine.
- How to install Athena 10 in the clusters. (Target audience: cluster services personnel.)
- Support
- Person to perform validation and and migration of upstream changes from dev to production apt repositories for both Ubuntu and debathena.
Stakeholders
- Athena Cluster Services Personnel who will install and maintain systems.
- Athena Consultants who will field questions.
- Academic Computing – will need service continuity, and input into long term direction.
- Users of Athena General Use Clusters.
- Users and maintainers of Private Athena Workstations.
- Athena Server Operations.
- MIT Training and Publications team, to assist with documentation.
- Users of Third party Software, and Alex Prengel who maintains the third party software.
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