Archive for February, 2006
Free beer at EclipseCon?
In light of the Eclipse Community Awards free beer propaganda, I’ve compiled a list of individuals to whom I likely owe a Free Beer at EclipseCon. Here goes:
1. Gunnar Wagenknect. This guy is so helpful, whether reassigning bugs that don’t belong to me, assigning bugs to me that should be, proposing solutions when [...]
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Thumbs up for WebMasters!
Yesterday I ran a very sophisticated poll asking you if us WebMasters were doing a good job. We got an overwhelming response! Here’s how you voted:
http://www.eclipse.org/thumbs-up-for-webmasters/: 142 votes
http://www.eclipse.org/thumbs-down-for-webmasters/: 23 votes
Thumbs-down from googlebot: 3 (*sigh* there ain’t no pleasing them)
We recognized a few friends who took the time to vote, and some others got very [...]
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Are we doing a good job?
With millions? of users, 600+ committers in 50+ projects, 13 servers, 10 co-workers and 1 boss to report to/manage/take-care-of/help/assist, we WebMasters think we’re doing a good job of keeping eclipse.org running smooth and fast, while maintaing a decent level of security and responding to requests for new infrastructure features or changes in a timely fashion.
Do [...]
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A community that listens
We get these e-mails all the time:
im trying to build a new plugin, but the plugin state is not saved. After i read the help, which by the way is bullsh1t, i still dont have a clue how to make the plugin remeber its state. Can you, please, send me some info on the [...]
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Move over Platform, here comes Web Tools
For the longest time, the most downloaded project at Eclipse.org was Eclipse itself - the Platform and SDK that everyone knows and loves. But there’s a new kid on the block, and that kid is Web Tools.
Prior to December 2005, the Web Tools project occasionally flirted with the bottom positions of the top-10 downloads. A [...]
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Eclipse downloads page grows a brain
When you download a file from Eclipse.org, you’re usually asked to pick a mirror site. The list of mirrors now detects where you are and suggests a random mirror site in the same country as you. Failing that, it tries to find mirrors in the same continent and lists those first.
With this, the whole [...]
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