Archive for June, 2008
Ottawa Committer celebrations tomorrow!
Ganymede is just around the corner (it is here for Friends, though) and for most of us in Ottawa, it’s time to Celebrate. Ottawa Eclipse Committers are invited to Marshy’s Bar and Grill, on Centrepointe Drive, at 1:00pm on Wednesday. We’ll have the usual suspects: food, beer, pop … so don’t bother having [...]
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Funny quotes of the day
Here are a few quotes that tickled me this afternoon. It’s been one of those days so far.
“I created two new Milestones for the EclipseLink project and screwed it up. I know that i get a big red warning that says don’t screw it up….”
You know, if a big red “don’t screw it [...]
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The calm before the storm
We’re pushing out a mere 52 Mbps. Our Build server’s load is unusually low. I have fewer emails in my inbox. Heck, even our office parking lot seems deserted. I soak it all in as the calm won’t last very long.
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ECF: takes two to tango
I just watched this ECF demo. All of it. This is really, really cool stuff.
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Committer Celebrations for Ganymede
The Ganymede launch is next Wednesday, so I’m inviting all Ottawa committers to come celebrate the Big Launch with a Big Lunch.
Last year 30 committers trampled our small offices, eating all our Pizza and drinking all our beer. This year, we’re doing the festivities at Marshy’s Bar and Grill, on Centrepointe Drive. The [...]
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Mozilla owes Eclipse a beer
It just occurred to me that yesterday’s Mirror Appreciation Day was coincidentally the same day as the Firefox 3 launch. As most OSS shops share the same mirror sites, methinks Mozilla owes us a beer for freeing up some mirror bandwidth
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Ganymede: Ready for Launch
Matt tested our shiny new Gigabit connection for Ganymede yesterday by removing all the Eclipse.org mirrors from our list, in an event we call “Mirror Appreciation day”. Not only does it allow us to tweak TCP stacks, routers and web server configs before a huge rush of traffic, it allows us to see how [...]
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Thanks EMF
I’ve been slogging through bug 198541 and the Standardized Groups initiative. There is a lot left to do, but one hurdle is crossed, thanks to EMF: one project has been migrated. They kindly volunteered to have the migration process tested out on them and we have now successfully migrated all of their components [...]
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Mozilla projects get standardized web sites
I remember when this used to happen to me.
I just went to mozilla.org to download FireFox 3, as part of the Download day. Here’s what their site looked like:
Thunderbird’s site:
bugzilla.org:
In all seriousness, I feel for the poor IT guys who are currently scrambling for anything that looks like an Ethernet cable, a disk drive [...]
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Mirror site appreciation day - June 17, 2008
Tomorrow is our annual Mirror Appreciation Day. To test our Ganymede infrastructure (servers, bandwidth, routing, etc) we simply disable our list of mirrors, so anything you download comes directly from Eclipse.org. Don’t be surprised if the usual mirror list looks a bit short.
For last years’ event we saturated our entire 300Mb pipe within [...]
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