Archive for June, 2007
Europa in full swing
The Europa release went off this morning without any technical problems, other than it took longer than expected to copy files to our own servers. The actual “we’re ready” was declared at around 9:45am ET.
Our servers kept up the pace: I saw a maximum throughput of 249 megabits/second, sustaining over 1,500 clients. Within [...]
[ Back to top ]
Eclipse Europa is here!
Come and get it!
[ Back to top ]
A cool downloads page - just in time for Europa
The Phoenix team (well, mostly Nathan) has been working on a new “main” downloads page prototype to replace the existing one. The purpose here is to a) highlight the user-oriented Eclipse packages created by the EPP and b) to highlight some of the Eclipse distros that commercial vendors are offering the community.
I think the page [...]
[ Back to top ]
Vservers can improve you life (if not your diet)
Denis, Matt, and I have been talking about lots of different architectures we could use to improve some of the infrastructure at eclipse.org. We have some miscellaneous machines which aren’t part of the core infrastructure but do some important jobs. And then we have a couple of host servers that hold vservers for [...]
[ Back to top ]
Ready for Europa
This morning I de-listed all our mirror sites so I can test our shiny new bandwidth capacity. It’s not permanent, though — the additional 230 megabits are to support the large demand for Europa. By the end of August, all that new bandwidth will be taken (pried) away from me.
The test was successful, as [...]
[ Back to top ]
Mirror site appreciation day - June 25, 2007 !
I’m declaring Monday, June 25 as “Mirror Site Appreciation” day.
I just got a call from our ISP saying our extra Gigabit connection has just been plugged in, and I need to test it to be ready for the Europa release on June 29. Actually, I don’t need to test the connection itself — I need [...]
[ Back to top ]
My hard drive has code?
Have you ever needed to update the code that makes your hard drive work? I had never even stopped to think that hard drives actually have software that makes them work, until I needed to update the code on two of our hard drives.
It all started in March 2006, when our central file server just [...]
[ Back to top ]
New toys for committers
I haven’t been giving our beloved Committers as many toys as in the past (new sites, new apps, new tools, etc.), and I feel bad. Last year I’d give out new toys every other month!
Well, here’s a new toy for them: Blogs. In response to bug 179857, I set up a wpmu site [...]
[ Back to top ]
Spamming Bugzilla
This morning, a computer in Russia was used to post SPAM attachments to our Bugzilla system. The fun part is that, because Bugzilla doesn’t allow anonymous posting, one must go through the trouble of registering for a Bugzilla account using a valid e-mail address, check their e-mail for the Bugzilla confirmation, log in, and [...]
[ Back to top ]
Europa committer celebrations
Europa is only 11 days away, and now is the time to start planning the celebrations. Last year, I invited committers in the Ottawa area to join me at the Foundation’s offices for some snacks and, uh… “orange juice” to celebrate the Callisto release. Kim suggests we repeat the celebrations this year (the last [...]
[ Back to top ]
