Archive for June, 2008
Planet Wordle
So Darin’s post got me thinking… what are people talking about on Planet? Wordling today’s content (previous to this post–I’m no magician–hey wouldn’t that be cool), you get an interesting idea of what’s being talked about. I did cut the right column content from the text, and I did not remove the timestamps [...]
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I’ve become one of him[]
Nick[] has successfully assimilated me into his[] collective. Witness my latest post to cross-project-issues as proof.
I[] guess it was unavoidable.
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Setting up servers for Ganymede
As Ganymede approaches (June 25!!), Matt and I have started setting up the servers and infrastructure to support the rush. Like most OSS shops we like pain, but unlike the others, we enjoy the torture of shipping 20 new project releases at the same time. Let’s see Mozilla try this
BandwidthOne 100Mbps [...]
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Friends get it first, and faster
Ganymede, that is.
If you’re a Friend of Eclipse you can get all the Ganymede bits before anyone else. Beat the rush — become a Friend of Eclipse.
What other friends are saying:
- Let’s see, $35 donation once in a while, or $240 each upgrade, hmm…- Long live eclipse. You made me more productive and effective.- [...]
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Commitment, Contributors, and One-timers
In a rather timely fashion, KernelTrap has posted an article entitled One-Time Contributers. Over the years I’ve heard that Eclipse committers are sometimes reluctant of committing code from outside contributors because they must maintain the API forever. This makes much sense to me, but it can be frustrating for the contributor who [...]
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Better language packs from Babel
I squashed a few bugs that were causing the Babel language packs to annoy, or even break Eclipse. Also, starting today, Babel is producing separate language packs for Europa and the upcoming Ganymede release.
Use one of these Update sites to get the latest language pack:http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/ganymedehttp://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/europa
Of course, none of this is useful without any translations. [...]
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