Archive for August, 2008
Eclipse Wiki gets a kick in the butt
Matt just finished work on the Eclipse Wiki. The goal was to make it much faster, as it was badly suffering lately. Here’s what he did:
- move it to a separate web cluster. It’s no longer fighting for CPU cycles with CVS, SVN and other large services.- move it to a separate [...]
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New Downloads page
The second most controversial page on www.eclipse.org just got a major overhaul today — the main Downloads page.
Its last redesign was done sometime in early 2005, when I introduced the smart mirrors system. It was given a new look when the purple Phoenix skin was introduced later that year, and it hasn’t been redesigned since.
As [...]
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Linux users love their Eclipse
I’m reading the latest issue of my favourite Linux rag and I see a lot of references to Eclipse. Again.
- LJ Index, their monthly ‘top 20′, where they feature interesting statistics on all things computer-related. This month, they compare the number of files, directories and lines of code in the Linux Kernel, gcc, KDE4, [...]
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Keeping an eye on website performance
As reported, our Wiki’s performance has been suffering lately, but the problem was intermittent. As these types of problems are hard to catch, I wrote a small shell script that would log the time it takes to log into the wiki and access a page as an authenticated user. In true MythBuster style, [...]
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Equinox is Standardized
The Equinox project just moved to the new top level RT project. In the process we migrated their groups structure to the standardized groups layout (from bug 198541) and added a website component. Thanks to Tom Watson for taking the time to help me get this move right and for the excellent wiki [...]
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