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Product Description

Athena 10, in a smaller and less expensive to maintain implementation, maintains service levels for existing customers and offers new customers the ability to install Athena on top of rather than instead of their present Ubuntu system.

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

• 3/4/09 Project merged with SIPB Debathena Project
• 3/4/09 "Beta" Milestone met with go-live of the Early Cluster release.
• 1/13/09 "Cluster" Milestone met.*12/22/08 * 2 out of 16 tasks in Milestone "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.

Third Party software policies and process are being reviewed in the document 3rd Party Software under Athena 10The 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 Top 10 punch list .

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

Third Party software policies and process are being reviewed in the document 3rd Party Software under Debathena

The detailed tasks and features are detailed in the Athena 10 Technical 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 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.