Archive for October, 2007
Right Place at the Right Time
Check out this bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=207702
I don’t usually work on Sunday afternoons, especially not when the weather is nice, but I just happened to be around when that happened.
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Easy way to a bug
Bug 199275 was opened requesting short URLs for accessing specific bug numbers. I didn’t give it much thought at first until I caught myself wanting such a feature while trying to access a specific bug. You can just type the bug number on the Bugzilla home page, but if I’m typing “bugs.eclipse.org” in [...]
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Open source: power to the people
OSS is a lot of things to a lot of people. To me, it’s power in my hands.
I run Linux everywhere — on the eclipse servers, my office workstation and my home computer, but not because it’s free (no cost). I enjoy having the power to do anything I want with my OS:
compiling my [...]
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Lists for Projects (update)
We rolled out lists for projects awhile ago (here is the post) but at the request of several projects and also bug 199603 we have rolled out an updated lists page that can now handle components of projects and display them for each committer as well. Hopefully this small update will help projects keep [...]
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The VE project is hiring!
I was compelled to blog about Philippe Ombredanne’s ‘help wanted’ posting in the eclipse.employment group. He’s looking to fill four job positions for the VE project:
- build manager- documentation manager- support manager- evangelist
Of course, none of these jobs actually pay money — he’s looking for volunteers. But despite the comedy, Philippe’s call for help [...]
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Farewell to Asterisk
Committers and members had been asking for Asterisk for awhile and we spent a good bit of time implementing a conferencing server on that platform for the community. But, for many reasons, people don’t seem to be using it much. Only 15 conferences have ever been scheduled by a project, unfortunately.
That alone [...]
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Innovation and community: a winning formula
It’s simple math: Innovation + broken patterns = crisiscrisis + community = collaboration = solutions
I’ve blogged before about how the Eclipse servers fell victims to the success of Mylyn. When mid-September rolled around, people returned from vacation and the Europa Fall maintenance release occurred. Our download site slowed to a crawl partly due to [...]
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