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See Also the Athena 10 Technical Plan Milestones

Athena 10 Preview ScrumSprint

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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