Archive for May, 2006
Phoenix activity
Now that the MySQL dust has settled, I’ve had a bit more time to invest in Phoenix - the Eclipse project that covers our website. Here’s what we’re up to:
Bigger Fonts: Do you think that our site’s font is too small? Stanimir has been kind enough to post a patch which makes our font bigger [...]
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Bugzilla replacement?
I was doing some bug triage today, and I kept stumbling on bugs that involve Bugzilla itself - enhancements, bugs, feature requests, you name it. Then I ran a query to list all the bugs in the Bugzilla component. Seems there are a number of ways Bugzilla could be improved, but it also brings up [...]
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New toys for committers
The Foundation has been doing its best to provide its beloved committers with the tools they need to get their job done [except for a stable database, which seems like an impossible task for us]. Today, our fearless leader Mike approved the purchase of an additional server for project Virtual Servers.
Although larger projects are often [...]
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Wiki for everyone - Part II
It finally happened. The Eclipse Wiki is now open for edits to any Eclipse Bugzilla registered user. This will allow anyone in the community to contribute content at any level.
We tied the Wiki to Bugzilla because we know how painful it is to maintain usernames and passwords for a bizillion sites, and we [...]
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The OpenSource of yesteryear
The year was 1995: 28.8K modems, 14″ screens, Pentium 166’s and no Google. Java was only a beverage, and Windows 3.1 ruled the desktop.
I was introduced to the concept of Open Source when I wanted to install Linux. Everyone (who knew) was talking about Slackware, and how great it was. I have fond memories of [...]
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MySQL oddities
Some of you who use our site 22 hours/day may have noticed we’ve been having some database problems for the last couple of weeks. We have two MySQL servers: a master and a replicated slave (well, we used to, anyway). The fault-tolerance aspect of the replication is nice to have, and allows us to [...]
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Wiki for everyone
When we opened up the Eclipse Project Wiki at http://wiki.eclipse.org/wiki/ , we limited editing to Eclipse committers. As per bug 118245, we’ve hacked the authentication mechanism to allow Eclipse Bugzilla registered users to edit the Wiki. It’s not live yet; we’re testing it out to see if it works.
One challenge we had was [...]
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