Archive for February, 2008
Babel @ EclipseCON
The Babel team is hosting a few events at EclipseCON. If you’re into translating Eclipse or Eclipse plugins, or if you want to help out on the project, come and see us.
Eclipse Babel Project Committers Working SessionMonday, 17:00, 1 hour | Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Lobby Lounge
Introduction to the Eclipse Babel ProjectEmerging Technologies [...]
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Eclipse Europa (3.3.2) is here for Friends
The Europa maintenance packages (based on Eclipse 3.3.2) have been uploaded by the project teams. Although the files aren’t available for public consumption while mirrors prefetch them, Friends of Eclipse can download everything Right Now. Here are the URLs:
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Eclipse Packages:CPP Linux x86_64CPP LinuxCPP MacCPP Win32
Java Linux x86_64Java LinuxJava [...]
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Eclipse translations picking up the pace
I logged into Babel today to translate a few strings, and was happy to see things picking up:
French 1910
Portuguese (Brazil) 943
German 735
Spanish 342
Polish 330
Hebrew 318
Portuguese 89
Czech 74
Chinese (Simplified) 19
Japanese 9
Arabic 3
Norwegian 1
There’s obviously lots of strings to translate, but if a whole bunch of us only spend a couple of minutes here-and-there, we’ll get Language [...]
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AMD servers piled in my office
Today was a happy day for me. I received the first four servers that AMD has donated to the Eclipse Foundation.
The servers came packed with 8GB of RAM and two Quad-Core Opteron processors to ensure speedy processing. The first server to be deployed will house the UDC MySQL database (which will likely [...]
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Mozilla getting feedback from its users for Bugzilla
I was quite surprised when I got an email last week from the Bugzilla User Experience team. They were interested in the “top-10″ searches on the Eclipse Bugzilla homepage, and the “nice feature of forwarding from bugs.eclipse.org/###“
I was more than happy to help providing answers, especially if our improvements make it into the codebase. [...]
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EclipseCon Has Everything
One of my jobs as an Eclipse webmaster is to support EclipseCon from the IT side. That means working on all the systems and databases that make EclipseCon run on the back end. One cool side-effect for me is that I learn about all the cool stuff happening at EclipseCon well before it [...]
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AMD Opteron servers: just in time for EclipseCon!
Just in time for EclipseCon, AMD is donating five Opteron-powered servers to the Eclipse Foundation. How rockin’ is that? Here are the specs:
- Dual CPU, Quad-core Opteron 64 processors- 8GB RAM- 2x 320GB SATA disks- Tyan motherboard with all the goodies- 2u server chassis can fit 8 disks
These machines will just shred through [...]
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Newcomer newsgroups top-15
Yesterday Wayne wanted to know who posted the most on the eclipse.newcomer newsgroup in the last year. After razzling-and-dazzling him with my Linux one-liner prowess, I came up with these results:
Top-15 active people on eclipse.newcomer:1. Ed Merks2. Eric Rizzo3. Daniel Megert4. Walter Harley5. Mark Dexter6. Krzysztof Daniel7. Ian Bull8. Jakub Jurkiewicz9. Bartosz Michalik10. Darin [...]
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OSS: I want my cake and eat it too.
When it comes to Open Source Software, I often get the impression that people want their cake and eat it too. The closing sentence of an email I got in the webmaster inbox really pulled my strings:
“The least the world expects of FOSS software, is to get well developed tools which can be [...]
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Eclipse Translations: French in the lead
I ran a quick query on Babel translations to see which languages were in the lead for translating Eclipse:
+————+————-+| name | StringCount |+————+————-+| French | 786 || German | [...]
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