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The Preview tasks were also tracked in the Athena 10 Preview Sprint.
Project Goals
- Inventory Athena use cases.
- Identify obsolete functionality and retire it.
- Maintain or improve service levels for the non-obsolete functionality.
- Migrate more functionality off of MIT-maintained code.
- Redo MIT-maintained functionality to reduce its size and maintenance cost.
- Adopt a base operating system in closer alignment with current practice in the MIT Linux community. (Ubuntu replaces Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL))
- Adopt applications and services in closer alignment with current practice in the MIT Linux community. (Applications, Services, and Device drivers of Ubuntu are more modern than what is in RHEL.
- Improve security.
- Modularize functionality to allow installation on top of pre-installed OS.
- New: Form a collaboration with the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) to leverage their modular DebAthena work, and to build a unified product going forward.
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