Archive for May, 2008
Babel Bugday: Friday, May 30
I listed two Babel (the project behind Eclipse globalization) bugs for Bugday. If you have a bit of time, some PHP and SQL skills, check these bugs out.
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Linux and Eclipse: so happy together
I’ve been reading the Linux Journal for a while now, and Eclipse sightings in the magazine have been increasingly frequent in the last year or so.
This month, not one, but two mentions of Eclipse:
SlickEdit’s Core for Eclipse is mentioned in the New Products section. “Eclipse users keep getting more treats” — you got [...]
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Is it that time of year again?
As I noticed the increasingly heavy load on the Eclipse Build server, I looked at my calendar and realized we are in the final month before Ganymede, this year’s annual release train. The locomotive is pulling the latest and greatest from superstar projects, such as Eclipse 3.4 (featuring the awesomeness that is p2), Webtools 3.0, [...]
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Babel stats
Eclipse 3.4 isn’t released yet, but it’s already passed the 50% translation rate for several languages, according to the Babel stats page I just put up:
Eclipse 3.4 Translation progressSpanish 54.52 %Japanese 54.31French 52.79German 50.26Polish 49.02Italian 49.01Chinese [...]
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p2 from the Horse’s mouth
Yesterday, Eclipse superheroes John Arthorne, Jeff McAffer and Pascal Rapicault were at the Eclipse Foundation’s office for a ‘working lunch’ to show us what p2 is all about.
p2 is essentially the next generation of Update Manager (UM) - you know that thing we sometimes use to upgrade Eclipse or, worse, to add plugins. UM [...]
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Web newsgroups more accessible
Everyone knows (and hates) exquisitus — the default username for Eclipse newsgroups. Last week Matt removed the authentication from the Web news portal making it even more accessible. Two things were blocking this — the need to spam-proof email addresses (we did that long ago) and the need to prevent spambots from being [...]
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Babel now SVN-friendly
I just massaged and committed a patch that was submitted by our friends at ILog for SVN support on the Babel server. Eclipse projects using Subversion will be able to leverage Babel’s tools for internationalization.
I’ll be committing the patch later today when my buddy Gabe gives me the thumbs-up. If your favourite Eclipse project [...]
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16 CPUs for Bugzilla all to myself
I’ll be deploying two new servers for Bugzilla later today, but in the meanwhile, those two servers are ALL MINE. 16 processor cores are just waiting for me to do something.
Today I’m doing bug triage. It’s so amazingly fast.
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Eclipse Website Redesign? Give it your best shot
As Bjorn blogged earlier, the Phoenix team is actively seeking design ideas for a new website look.
Boldly Go Where No One Has
Now is the time to be wild — we’re open to ideas. Do you imagine a home page with a single download button, and nothing else? Submit it! Tired of all that [...]
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Eclipse.org going virtual
When deploying new servers at Eclipse.org, one design requirement is that critical services, such as Bugzilla and CVS must run on at least two physical servers to support hardware fault tolerance and traffic spikes via load balancing.
But dedicating two of the new AMD monsters to Bugzilla is overkill. We’ve been running virtual servers using the [...]
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