Archive for October, 2008
Build Workshop 3: Common Builder in its infancy
We’re on Day 3 of the Build Workshop 3, and I’m seeing some really good stuff. Of course I don’t understand most of it, but that’s what I get from sitting between two rock stars like Nick Boldt and Andrew Overholt.
Folks from the Platform/PDE teams were here for Day 1 and Day 2 and [...]
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Eclipse Enterprise Users newsgroup
The Eclipse Enterprise Users group just opened today. Miles Daffin, who suggested the group, posted this welcome message:
“Are you responsible for providing eclipse at your firm? If so then this may be the group for you.
For the past 3 years I have been in charge of providing eclipse at my company. This [...]
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Babel server now actively helps translate Eclipse
Thanks to a suggestion and a patch from Babel’s newest committer Antoine Toulme, the Babel server now actively participates in the translation effort by finding translations for untranslated strings. There’s a lot of string overlap across all projects, and on the French language, our beloved Eclipse Translation Genie has translated an additional 18% of [...]
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Build Workshop III: With a Purpose
Wednesday, Oct. 22 Nick Boldt and I are hosting our third ever Build Workshop. The goal is to implement a Common Build Infrastructure on Eclipse.org servers to allow Eclipse projects to focus on coding instead of release engineering tasks.
If you’re a release engineer, or you know lots about building software, you’re welcome to attend. [...]
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Linux servers: swap, memory and how much of each
When you set up a Linux server, you need to carefully consider the amount of RAM to buy and swap space to use. Back in the old days, folks would simply suggest setting the swap amount to twice the amount of RAM. Nowadays, as RAM is cheap, I see some people suggesting to not [...]
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Four years at Eclipse
On Oct. 1, 2004 I started my first day on the job with the Eclipse Foundation. If memory serves me correctly, that day — my first day on the job — I was in a meeting with the folks from IBM and the folks from our ISP (Primus) discussing
a) how we were going to [...]
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Technology PMC is a bunch of badasses
I heard there was some movement in the Eclipse Technology PMC, so I wandered over to the Tech PMC page to discover the PMC is composed of some badass individuals.
Wayne “Mad Dog” Beaton. He’s the lead, and therefore the most badass of them all.
Bjorn “Knuckles” Freeman-Benson
Chris “Iron Fist” Aniszczyk.
The only non-brute PMC members [...]
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