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Comment: Updated with today's status; Added link to debathena/beta web site.

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Although all the functionality is available for Public Cluster deployment, the components are un-bundled and can be mixed and matched into packagings radically different from the collections that have historically been viewed as "the way Athena is".

Summary Status

  • 123/22/08 2 out of 16 tasks in Milestone "4/09 "Beta" Milestone met with go-live of the Early Cluster release.
  • 1/13/09 "Cluster" Milestone met.Cluster"
  • 12/12/08 "Feature Complete" Milestone met.
  • 8/15/08 "Preview Release" Milestone met.
  • 7/25/08 "Basic" Milestone met.
  • 6/30/08 "Core" Milestone met.
  • 3/18/08 "Infrastructure" milestone met.
  • 12/12/08 "Feature Complete" milestone met.

The customer face of Athena 10/Debathena is the Debathena Beta Web Site

Bugs/Issues with Athena 10 are tracked in the Athena 10 Jira

The issues are organized in a prioritized Top 10 punch list .

Bugs/Issues relevant to the broader debathena scope are tracked in the Debathena Trac

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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 3/18/08 February 2008 Create necessary development infrastructure.
  • DONE 6/30/08 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).
  • DONE 7/25/08 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.
  • DONE 8/15/08 January 2008 to: 15 August 2008 Work to Athena 10 Preview deliverable suitable for experimentation with by incoming freshmen.
  • DONE 1/13/09 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. (We decided to eliminate a legacy updater to reduce project scope. New biggest Scheduling issue: The comprehensive Cluster installer.
  • DONE 12/12/08 1 October 2008 - 1 November 2008 Work to Feature Complete Milestone: Remaining release features are completed except for rearchitected printing. System release notes are complete. Backward compatibility issues are substantially resolved. Biggest scheduling issue: The installer.
  • DONE 3/4/09 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.
  • 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.
  • 1 July 2009 - 15 October 2009 Follow-up, and confirmation that Athena 10 has successfully rolled out and replaces Athena 9.