Archive for March, 2007
REMIND and LATER: can we just delete them and move on?
With Alex’ latest post on EZ he makes it plenty clear that REMIND and LATER are not valid bug resolutions.
I opened bug 178923 requesting their removal. Go vote, vent, and comment, so we can get rid of them once and for all.
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New major Bugzilla release on the horizon
Bugzilla 3.0, expected to be released in early April, is sure to be a crowd pleaser with a host of new features our Committers have been requesting. Here are some highlights from the Release Notes:
- Custom Fields. The IP team will appreciate this flexibility on IPZilla, as it runs a vanilla Bugzilla installtion [...]
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EclipseCON by the numbers
As is tradition, EclipseCON comes to a close with a cool “EclipseCON by the numbers” presentation, which is more humourous in nature than it is scientific. EclipseZone posted the stats yesterday, and I have some numbers of my own — these numbers show the impact of a popular event on our website:
Number of HTML [...]
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Unintended consequences: local build servers
When projects run a build, I had always thought it would be much more efficient if the build servers were physically on the same LAN as Eclipse CVS and downloads, instead of pulling/pushing code over the Internet. After all, bandwidth isn’t free. Well, that turned out to be true, as several projects now use some [...]
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PlanetEclipse on Caffeine Overdose
Not to be outdone by last year’s EclipseCON, the Planet will be aggregating every 10 minutes while EclipseCON is in full swing. This should help you keep up with all the blogging that will be happening live from Santa Clara.
I can’t be at the Party this year (my daughter turns one (already?!) on March 7th [...]
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Eclipsepedia gets a facelift
Eclipsepedia (the Eclipse Project Wiki) got a much-needed overhaul yesterday. Updates include using the latest release of MediaWiki, and a look identical to the rest of the www.eclipse.org website. Go check it out!
Props to Matt for getting this done despite everything that needed to be done at the same time — I could [...]
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Do you bloat?
I found Steve’s ‘the end of an era’ blurb an interesting one, where he asks “Oh computing world, where did we bloat out and go wrong?” I’m sure Steve knows the answer: with massive amounts of computing power at our disposal and requirements to deploy rapidly, developers no longer need (or have time) to optimize [...]
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