Summary Status
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.
- 10/10/08 2 out of 15 tasks in Milestone "Cluster" remain; 6 ot of 12 "Feature Complete" tasks remain.
- 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.
Third Party software policies and process are being reviewed in the document 3rd Party Software under Athena 10
Milestones are detailed in See Also the Athena 10 Technical Plan Milestones .
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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- 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.
- 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.
- 1 October 2008 - 1 November 2008 Work to Feature Complete Milestone: Remaining release features are completed except for rearchitected printing. The installer is complete. System release notes are complete. Backward compatibility issues are substantially resolved. Biggest scheduling issue: The installer.
- 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.