Archive for September, 2006
Quality of Service - what would we do without it!
Eclipse 3.2.1 was just released to the Grand Public, and our bandwidth is now maxed out - as usual. Luckily our network infrastructure is configured with elaborate Quality of Service (QoS) rules, meaning CVS, Bugzilla and our websites get priority access to outgoing bandwidth. Downloads get stuck at the end of the queue with [...]
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Wayne’s Lunch and Learn
Once a week for the past two weeks Wayne has been hosting a small Lunch and Learn activity at the Foundation’s office. The goal here is to help bring Eclipse Foundation Staff up to speed on the various Eclipse technologies. Last week Wayne introduced us to bottom-up design by coding jUnit tests first. This [...]
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Eclipse "winamp" Skin!
I recently discarded Windows XP from my laptop and installed Linux (I was using Linux in VMWare before). You know how it is when you reinstall your OS - you need to reconfigure everything. After using the same XMMS (Linux’ WinAMP) skin for decades, I sought out a new one. Lo and behold, I [...]
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Cool Bugzilla Stats
In bug 157642 I commented on some neat Bugzilla stats. The title of the bug is “RESOLVE LATER” has become a synonym for “NEVER”. The submitter stated that 5,000 bugs out of over 150,000 are resolved as LATER, which is about 3%. I break it down further in comment 3, and Gunnar [...]
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Blind programming
During my 4h30m flight to Vancouver (to get to the Europa Build Workshop) I did something I hadn’t done in a very long time: Blind Programming. I’m in the process of modifying our Contribution Questionnaire to automagically feed Bugzilla bug entries as part of the IPZilla effort and wanted to get ahead during my [...]
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Live from Europa Build Workshop
I’m in Portland this week attending the Europa Build Workshop, organized by Ward, Bjorn and Anne. So far it’s very interesting, as there are many bright minds here offering great ideas and solutions.
We started the day with a great breakfast and an introduction to get to know everyone, then we moved onto the Lightning [...]
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IPZilla - a better gateway to Eclipse IP
When Eclipse committers want to incorporate a large third-party code contribution in their project, they need to fill out a Contribution Questionnaire (CQ). This questionnaire is then received by the Foundation’s IP team for review. Right now, it’s not pretty:
the questionnaire info simply gets dumped into an e-mail. Welcome back to 1994.
there’s a whole [...]
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Protecting your data.
Once in a while we get asked to move an Eclipse project from Technology to another top-level project. Of course, this involves moving CVS and Bugzilla data. Because Bugzilla doesn’t have such “move” tools, we need to go in and manually run SQL UPDATEs on the database.
Manipulating live data this way is scary [...]
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Eclipse website for users and newcomers
Up until now, the eclipse.org website(s) were mainly targetting Eclipse developers and plug-in developers, where the main focus of the site was around the projects. Now, the Phoenix team has been tasked with making our website easier to use for newcomers and for Eclipse users.
The following bugs are related to the makeover of many aspects [...]
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Eclipse 3.2 SDK download stats
The Eclipse SDK 3.2 release just registered over 1.28 million downloads, and an additional 27,000 downloads using BitTorrent (a whopping 2%). Not too shabby. The busiest day for downloads was July 3, with 31,000. Where does all the traffic come from? Here are the top-20 countries:
1. United States 2609112. China [...]
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