Archive for August, 2005
Eclipse website redesign (Phoenix)
According to the Project Phoenix plan, today is the day we pick a brand new look for the Eclipse website. What a grandiose affair! After having the same look since August 2001, we’ll start fitting new content to a new look. We only have three templates to choose from, but they are great designs. [...]
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Why does bugzilla lag?
Although I haven’t seen this since putting in the new servers, the complaint I’ve received the most often is that Bugzilla is slow. Although I don’t use Bugzilla as much as our Committers do, I do use it on a daily basis and I got to wondering why Bugzilla occasionally lags - even with powerful [...]
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Feels good to give
This weekend I went to the local SPCA to do good on my pledge for the Million Download challenge. $10/day X 20 days made for a nice donation of $200 - enough to buy some food, vaccines and perhaps a bit of veterinarian TLC for a few pets.
I hope the community gets together again for [...]
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planeteclipse planeteclipse hiccupps hiccupps
As per bug 105770 planeteclipse.org has been behaving real nasty lately. I’ve installed Gunnar’s verion and it’s running in parallel. Try it out and let me know what you think. I figure it can’t be worse than what’s here now.
http://planeteclipse.org/planet-new/
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bittorrent blues
When Eclipse 3.1 was released, the eclipse.org website slowed to a crawl within hours. One key cause of the saturation was that we failed to allow our mirror sites time to sync up before publishing the links. It hurt and we learned.
During the 3.1 chaos, I must have received about 10 e-mails from (understandably) disgruntled [...]
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So here it is…
I finally did it. A blog. Imagine that.
In the Eclipse community, I’d say I’m a listener. Wether through the hundred or so daily e-mails sent to webmaster@eclipse.org, the issues opened on Bugzilla, posts on the newsgroup or Ian blaring about in the office, my ears are wide open. But I have stuff to say [...]
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