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- Software packages
- Athena original software
- Configurators for native or imported third party packages.
- Self maintenace
- Source repositories for software for which MIT is the upstream maintainer.
- An automated update from Athena 9.4. DELETED to shrink project scope.
- An installation system.
- Release notes and documentation, particularly for aspects of Athena 9.4 which become desupported or supported in different ways.
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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. (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. 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.