Archive for June, 2006
Callisto: the day that just flew by
About 20 (if not more?) committers showed up for the Callisto celebration at the foundation offices Friday afternoon. It was nice to see everyone, and I met a few committers I hadn’t met before. Everyone anxiously waited for us to press the Big Button - the one that makes the release files available to [...]
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Callisto is here! Really!
So it’s a bit late… but Callisto is here! Head off to the downloads page now!
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Packing the bits … angry committers coming to Foundation office
David is graciously packing the final bits for Callisto. After that, we wait for a few mirrors…
Can’t talk, must watch processes…
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Callisto is delayed - celebrations are not
Callisto will be delayed for a bit. Unforeseen circumstances. Uncontrollable events. We don’t have an ETA yet, but stay tuned for information. We do expect it to be released today.
Committers can still come celebrate with us at the Foundation offices this afternoon while we wait for mirrors to catch up. We’ll then be able [...]
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More Callisto beer donations!
After blogging about the generous $50 beer donation from Platform Releng, Mike offered to match the donation. So I now have $100 worth of beer, and I need help drinking it.
So I’m confirming my invitation to Eclipse Committers in Ottawa to kindly join us for a beverage this friday afternoon at the Foundation’s offices, to [...]
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Callisto beer donations going around!
Tuesday morning Matt and I received a card in the mail. The return address is platform-releng-dev. Hmm, what’s this all about?
Inside, words of gratitude, “pop across the street for some Callisto juice” and a gift certificate for $50 from the BEER STORE, signed by Kim and Sonia.
FIFTY BUCKS! Wooohooo! How so very nice!
But we [...]
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How much are mirror sites worth?
250,000 $CAD per year.
That’s a million dollars every four years. Heck, with these savings, the Foundation could buy me a new Porsche every quarter. Wouldn’t that be awesome.
Yesterday was Mirror Appreciation Day — we disabled sending traffic to our mirror sites to test our setup for the upcoming Callisto event. Also to give our mirrors [...]
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Mirror site appreciation day - June 20, 2006 !
I’m declaring tomorrow, June 20 as “Mirror Site Appreciation” day. Why?
- Mirror sites provide valuable resources (bandwidth, servers, SysAdmins) for the entire community. Without them, getting Eclipse would be infinitely harder, so I thought that their precious contributions should be acknowledged in a special way.
- I need to test our servers and infrastructure to [...]
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Callisto bandwidth - how much will it cost?
Last year, when Eclipse 3.1 was released, we added our own mirror server with a dedicated 100 Mbps Internet connection to ease the bandwidth problems we were having. At the time, Ed Burnette and many others could only guess as to how much it costs to enable this, and this year we’re adding 240 Mbps [...]
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More bandwidth for Callisto
Callisto is approaching fast, and we received our new 100 Mbps network connections last week. To survive the Big Event, we’ll be removing the 60 Mbps cap on our existing 100 Mbps and use these two 100 Mbps connections dedicated to downloads. The net sum of usable bandwidth should be about 280 Mbps, routed [...]
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