Archive for July, 2007
Going fishing
Our Thank You page hasn’t been updated in a long time.
Nope, it sure hasn’t.
Gettin’ kind of stale. Sure would like to add some colour to it.
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Europa: 1 million downloads
Last year’s Callisto proved to be a huge success, as we registered 1 million downloads in only 40 days.
This year’s Europa has made Callisto look like an ant among elephants. I ran some stats yesterday, and we have already registered 1.3 million downloads less than 30 days after the Europa release. The new Eclipse Packages [...]
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Subversion on the Dashboard
Bjorn and Ward built the Eclipse dashboard about a year ago to track CVS commits by project, committer, company, etc. It has been very useful and a lot of people seem to be querying it. With the addition of Subversion repositories at Eclipse.org, though, there has been no way for people running SVN [...]
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Asterisk Improvements
The Modeling PMC had a call on our Asterisk server which did not go very well. I know a few others of you have tried it, some with luck, others not. I believe the biggest problems are all client-side, primarily poor audio quality due to a lack of headsets, and Idefisk not being [...]
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Getting the Most out of Asterisk
I realized from a few emails that we webmasters have gotten over the last few days that I need to update the Asterisk howto for conferencing with some better information on how to make the audio quality the best possible for your call. I will be putting some more notes there over the next [...]
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Transclusion? Is that a real word?
People have been asking for Transclusion in their project pages for some time (bug 179537 and bug 157707). The idea of keeping wiki pages up to date versus maintaining static pages is very attractive, hence the explosion of wikis all over the ‘net. It seems like a simple problem to solve: just [...]
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Lists for Projects
Bjorn has for some time been requesting that we create some simple PHP scripts to let projects link to their list of committers, leads, etc without having to maintain static pages. The easiest thing to do is to just query our own database where we keep this information and make it publicly available to [...]
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Mylyn popularity == busy Bugzilla
All morning I have been watching our servers glow a nice shade of orange, meaning they are quite busy. A quick glance at our monitors indicate CPU usage is high, and the culprit is Perl. That can only mean one thing: someone is pounding on Bugzilla.
Tailing the logfiles reveals it’s not “someone”, but actually [...]
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Fridays…
So if you have something important to say in your blog you should say it on Friday. Why do I say that? Well I very unscientifically have observed that people don’t seem to blog much on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. In the Planet Eclipse aggregator you tend to have a pretty long [...]
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Europa committer celebrations
Last Friday a bunch of Ottawa committers stopped by the Foundation’s offices for Pizza and Beer, to celebrate a Job Well Done with the release of Europa. More people showed up than I expected, and I eventually ran out of both Pizza and Beer. Luckily Kim brought some delicious brownies and Strongbow cider, [...]
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