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Originally targeted roll-out of August 2008 will be delayed until January 2008.
Infrastructure milestone has been met.
Significant progress on the next milestone, Core.
See Also the Athena 10 Technical Plan : Milestones
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.
The Athena 10 Technical Plan contains the use case analysis of the Red Hat 4-based Athena version 9.4, the mapping of that functionality onto the Ubuntu base operating system, and the current status of the development work to produce the Athena 10 deliverables.
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These deliverables are further detailed in the Athena 10 Technical Plan : Deliverables
Roll-out Plan
To be refined.
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