Archive for November, 2006
A mirror in China
Our friends at Actuate are in the process of setting up a downloads mirror site in China. China is one of Eclipse’s top downloaders, second only to the USA, and yet we have no mirror sites in China. Thanks, Actuate, I’m sure our friends in China will appreciate the gesture (and our mirrors in Japan, [...]
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Where’d the bandwidth go?
Last month I celebrated my 2nd anniversary here at the Foundation — easy to remember, as it falls on the same day as Mike’s birthday. After my very first day on the job, I was invited to celebrate with the then very small Foundation team, where we enjoyed finger foods and beverages. I also [...]
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Good bug reports
Any committer will tell you that it’s important to fill out a good bug report so that he/she can quickly identify and solve the issue. What is a good bug report? One that includes error messages, stack/trace dumps, screenshots, steps to reproduce, versions of Eclipse and plugins in use, and anything else they’d need to [...]
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