Archive for September, 2005
Project Phoenix first look
Our web designer has sent the first draft of the XMTML/CSS code that will go into the new eclipse.org redesign. I’ve opened bug 111001 (no, not bug 57 for you binary freaks) for you to view the code and comment.
Like a house under construction, some visuals will change - such as the big swooshy [...]
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Better search
The Search engine at eclipse.org gets its fair share of use; unfortunately, the results don’t always seem relevant. The search engine itself, although not a Google, is not a bad piece of software in its own right — it simply has a hard time indexing the entire site with the current configuration. The main problems [...]
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New toys for Eclipse committers
Recent studies* show that committers pound out more code and add more features when they’re happy, so we’re giving them some new toys to play with.
Up for grabs are eclipse.org e-mail aliases. That’s right, why cower behind an “everyone-got-one” gmail address when you can be admired by all for being john.doe@eclipse.org? These aliases will forward [...]
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New CVS repository paths
As explained in bug 107748, newrepository paths have been created. These new paths are pointers to thephysical location of the CVS repositories.
/home/eclipse becomes /cvsroot/eclipse/home/tools becomes /cvsroot/tools/home/technology becomes /cvsroot/technology/home/webtools becomes /cvsroot/webtools/home/birt becomes /cvsroot/birt/home/tptp becomes /cvsroot/tptp/home/datatools becomes /cvsroot/datatools/home/dsdp becomes /cvsroot/dsdp/home/cvs/org.eclipse becomes /cvsroot/org.eclipse
Please update your CVS client configuration at your earliestconvenience. As explained in the bug, the [...]
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More bandwidth!
To cope with the increased traffic associated with adding new projects, new committers, more downloads and a seemingly incessant gain in popularity, we’ve just added 10 Mbps of permanent throughput capacity (bandwidth, if you prefer) to the eclipse.org infrastructure.
This should help speed things up a bit. I’m in the process of adding the website traffic [...]
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