Archive for April, 2006
Bugzilla SQL rocket science
I was monitoring MySQL database activity this morning (our master DB has been acting up lately) and I happened to see this query fly by, courtesy of Bugzilla:
SELECT bug_id FROM bugs WHERE bug_id = 73050
Um. Okay, I’ll bite. What is bug_id 73050’s bug_id?
mysql> SELECT bug_id FROM bugs WHERE bug_id = 73050;+——–+| bug_id |+——–+| [...]
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Gearing up for Callisto
A few fellow bloggers have been writing about Callisto, the simultaneous release of 10 Eclipse projects (including a shiny new version of Eclipse itself). We webmasters have been gearing up for the event as well. It will be a major event that will draw millions of people to our site all at once, and we [...]
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Apologies for Alex
I feel bad about my last blog entry but I’ll leave it there for everyone to see.
I dislike what is not constructive. I attacked a community member, and under no circumstances is that constructive.
Alex raises good points, and although I think bypassing the mirrors is not a good idea for various reasons, it’s not right [...]
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Use extortion to get bugs fixed!
Alex Blewitt doesn’t like the way the downloads pages and mirrors work at eclipse.org. He’s mentioned it before, and each time I’ve asked him to raise bugs. Bugs == open == community == feedback == ideas. Sounds fair and constructive, considering this is also the approach we prefer. So he kindly raised two bugs: 134630 [...]
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