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1. DONE 3/18/08 Infrastructure - Development infrastructure in place including source tree and build scripts. Ubuntu machines in the hands of Andrew and Bob so that they may begin work.
2. DONE 6/30/08 Core - The fundamental building blocks of the Athena environment are in place (AFS, login, incremental updates, etc). Due date: April 30.
3. DONE 7/25/08 Basic - The high-profile Athena applications are in place (Firefox, email, etc.). Due date: June 30. Bigest scheduling issue: email clients.
4. DONE 8/15/08 Preview - Enough features are in place for release to private machines on an opt-in basis. Backward compatibility features are not a big concern for this milestone if they are not expected to receive heavy use. Biggest scheduling issue: printing. Due date: August 15.
5. Cluster - Self-maintenance features and GNOME modifications necessary for cluster machine deployments are in place. Alpha testing can begin once this milestone is complete. The updater is complete. Due date: October 1. Biggest scheduling isue: The updater.
6. DONE 12/12/08 Feature Complete - Remaining release features are completed. The installer is complete. System release notes are complete. Backward compatibility issues are
   substantially resolved. Due date: November 1. Biggest scheduling issue: The installer.
7. Beta Testing Complete - Acceptance testing is complete and Athena 10 is ready for "early release" deployment. User release notes are complete. Due date: November 1.
8. Full Deployment Readiness - Early release is complete and Athena 10 is ready to be released to all cluster machines. Due date: December 1

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• DONE Users can connect to the mainframe with the x3270 terminal emulator.
• DONE Users can send and receive Zephyr messages.
• DONE Users can browse the web with Firefox, which is preconfigured with the MIT CA, a local filesystem path for its disk cache, and the Java and Flash plugins.
• DONE Users can easily connect to the MIT Chat service with Gaim, and in addition can use the gaim-encryption plugin for end-to-end message encryption.
• DONE Users can easily read MIT mail using Evolution or Pine.
• DONE Users can read archives in Discuss.
• DONE Users have access to a rich C development environment as well as basic installations of Perl, Python, and Java.
• Users have access to a variety of non-standard utilities (jot, lam, saferm, etc.).
• DONE Users can print to Athena network printers with the lpr command and from applications which support printing.
• DONE Users have access to the enscript command to format text documents into postscript for printing.
• DONE Users can run emacs with Athena site customizations.
• DONE Users can conduct single sign-on logins to other Athena machines (provided they have a keytab and are configured for remote access) or compatible non-Athena machines via kerberized ssh, telnet, rlogin, or ftp.
• DONE Users can query and manipulate IMAP mail stores with the mailquota, mailusage, from, and mitmail* commands.
• DONE Users can access and run software from AFS lockers through /mit paths via "attach", "add", "setup", and related commands. Home directories are also treated as lockers.
• DESUPPORT Users can use a network-enabled replacement for "write" between machines.
• DONE Users can query Athena hesiod information with the hesinfo command.
• DONE Users can spell-check documents using the ispell command.
• DONE Users can pull down MIT mail with the emacs movemail command (currently uses kpop).
• DONE Athena machines have a selection of international fonts installed.
• DONE Users can talk to serial devices using kermit.
• DONE Users can process TeX and LaTeX documents.
• DONE Athena machines can access Windows file shares using a Kerberos-enabled smbclient.
• DESUPPORT Athena machines can serve file shares to SMB clients, using a Kerberos-enabled Samba server which is pre-configured for the win.mit.edu realm.
• DONE Athena machines have attach-and-run scripts in the default path for various bits of locker software such as the Moira tools.

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Planned solution: The Ubuntu emacs package is not built with Hesiod and KPOP support in movemail. Some Even though a few users still use emacs rmail, so we either need to locally modify the Debian package to build movemail differently, or , it has been actively discouraged for a very long time. We are going to desupport this feature. If there is significant pushback, we can either instruct the few users how to build their own movemail, or we could install the native mailutils package, configure it to work with the PO servers, and point emacs at it in our site-start file. Alternatively, we could desupport this way of reading mail, though we know a few people still use it.

Status: Not done.

If the user base changes or the email infrastructure changes significantly this can be revisited in follow-on work.

Status: DoneMilestone: Feature Complete (one week, maybe less).

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Current solution: The athena-nmh package provides a build of nmh 1.0. (Unfinished.)

Planned solution: (Unfinished.)Status: Debathena contains a package of the Athena nmh sources which uses KPOP. This is an adequate stopgap. Follow-on work will be needed as the MIT Email infrastructure evolves.

Status: DoneMilestone: Feature Complete (two weeks, maybe less).

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