Archive for September, 2007
Search source code in CVS… Can that be useful?
Folks have asked for the ability to search through CVS in the past, so I figured I’d see if I can leverage the existing software we run on eclipse.org to accomplish this. It’s important for me to try to use what we already have to keep software maintenance to a minimum. We’re running [...]
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Nick Boldt needs to win Best Open Source Comedian Award
Nick just never ceases to make me laugh. Read his latest creation:https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=198042#c2
How does he come up with this stuff?
This is another one of my faves:http://divby0.blogspot.com/2007/08/epl.html
Read more of Nick’s in-your-face insightfulness:http://divby0.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Nick!
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Project Meta-Data for Eclipse.org
We had a system where projects maintained meta-data in an XML file in their web tree. That was good because it gave us much-needed information about the projects that we could use on the web site. But it was bad because it was hard to expand it, the projects had to maintain the [...]
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How much SPAM do you tolerate before you become annoying?
Sometimes I feel companies go too far with their SPAM protection.
From: someone@To: webmaster@Dear webmaster, yesterday I was able to log into bugzilla, and today it sais my account is blocked because bugzilla can’t send me e-mail. Can you unlock my account and/or explain to me *why* my account was blocked?
From: webmaster@To: someone@Dear someone, your Bugzilla [...]
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Timeline Gets a Facelift
The projects timeline at Eclipse.org just got a facelift thanks to the Simile Project at MIT and the work we’ve been doing to centralize all the project information that was formerly held in project-info.xml files into a single database. There is some work to do cleaning up dates that are malformed in the DB [...]
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Downloads RSS Feed
While we’re on a roll with new RSS feeds (and because we like you all so much) (okay and to be completely honest about it–there was a long-time bug about this: bug 164390) we’ve rolled out a new feed for tracking project releases. It’s available from the downloads page as both an icon on [...]
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