Archive for August, 2007
DLTK, Pokemon and distasteful pictures
We get lots of e-mail in the webmaster Inbox. Lots. We try to be as helpful as we can we each request. Being a relatively new Daddy, I couldn’t help going beyond the call of duty by doing a bit of investigation for this particular e-mail (addressed to dltk-dev-owner, the DLTK developer [...]
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RSS Feeds for Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
The community (that’s you) have been asking us for RSS feeds for our mailing lists and newsgroups for awhile now (bug 107609, bug 106561, etc) and we’ve got them! It turns out that our mail archiver, Mhonarc, is a very versatile piece of software. It can take a template for it’s output and [...]
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Eclipse: tools for IT people too
Although we have a policy of running OSS software exclusively here at eclipse.org, we also have a policy of not altering the source code of key software components. You know the drill: you hack into the code for all the right reasons, only to realize that months later, upgrading that hacked code to a [...]
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How do you email? The results are in.
Yesterday I conducted a poll because I needed your opinion on a few things. I just compiled the results:
145 keep-top-posting-its-fine85 bottom-post-otherwise-youre-annoyingSo I’ll keep top-posting, except in mailing lists and newsgroups for the sake of keeping the thread sane.
87 your-404-page-is-ugly-make-a-new-oneI thought so. I opened bug 200281 for this.
116 plaintext-email-is-good58 go-HTML-for-emailPlain Text it is! [...]
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How do you e-mail?
I’m old-school when it comes to the Internet communication. I spell e-mail with a hyphen. I top-post. I don’t know what facebook is, nor do I really care to know. An emoticon is made up of ASCII characters, not graphics. I don’t have a myspace page, and I still prefer Plain Text e-mails to [...]
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Bug 200,000? That’s worthy of some swag.
A few people have blogged about how we just passed bug 200,000. I hinted to Lynn that we should send the bug reporter some swag. Congrats, Benno, it’s people like you who keep Bugzilla on its toes
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Make money with Eclipse knowledge
I stumbled upon this juicy nugget (registration required) on the newcomers group this morning. Essentially, this gentleman is trying to do something in Eclipse and he’s stuck, so he’s offering $100 to the first person to help him.
I think this is the first time I see such a post. If I was in [...]
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A Groups Reorganization
We’ve grown a lot as a community over the past few years and as a reflection of that Denis has had to beef up the webmaster support staff. He can’t fly as Lone Ranger any more and Matt and I are pretty darn busy, too. We had some discussions inside the Foundation about [...]
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It happens to them too!
My trusty left wingman Karl (my right wingman being Matt) blogged about a series of outages we’ve had this weekend due to hardware issues we’ve been having. I sighed in relief when, early tonight, I got this *twice* while trying to log into hotmail.
The error message was intermittent, meaning they likely have a few [...]
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What the heck happened this weekend?
I can’t post this in the most timely manner because in their infinite wisdom, Blogger have determined that eclipsewebmaster is a spam blog. Uh, what? Apparently too many links to one site. Gosh… it IS the eclipse.org Webmasters’ blog. So I have put in a request to get this rectified and [...]
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