Archive for November, 2008
Why users don’t bother to file bug reports
This has to be the saddest bug I have ever seen. Unfortunately, I see this type of response all too often, where the user, despite having a perfectly readable stack trace, dump or error message, is expected to either a) prove to the developers that the problem still exists in the latest nightly build [...]
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Eclipse servers out and about last weekend
After months of stellar uptime, the Eclipse servers were acting up last weekend. As it turns out, our primary backend server became so busy doing file operations that its response time was measured in minutes. For all intents and purposes, consider a load of “10.00″ to be somewhat high. Here is ‘fred’, [...]
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Mylyn: Indispensable
I have been using Mylyn heavily for about a year now. I hadn’t realized how much it has embedded itself into my work habits. It was just how I did my job and I never paid attention to how much I was using it. Then my laptop crapped out. The machine [...]
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Portal Updates
We’ve been working on the Portal of late, adding features people have been asking for. Here are a couple:
Projects have been asking for the ability to inherit their meta-data from projects higher up the chain so that they don’t need to maintain meta-data for all sub-projects. As bug 198541 and the Standardized Groups [...]
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Privacy in open communities?
I just finished reading Doug’s latest blog post, which refers to the qemu mailing list archives. We maintain mail archives at Eclipse too, and I’m always interested in comparing notes with other sites.
Beyond all the similarities between their archives and ours, I was surprised to see a link to “download the archives in mbox [...]
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Adobe contributes full translations for Eclipse 3.4 in 6 languages
Yesterday was a happy day for Eclipse users around the globe: our friends at Adobe have given the full translations for Eclipse 3.4 to the Babel project, in French, German, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Korean. See bug 254964.
It will take a bit of time for this contribution to work its way through [...]
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20 Terabytes!
Eclipse.org servers have sent over 20 TB to the Internet in October. This is the first time we break the 20 TB barrier in a regular, non-release-train month. This means we were at peak bandwidth for most of the time (except on weekends).
It’s interesting to know that Eclipse.org servers don’t generally go under [...]
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i18n: are you doing it properly?
Babel’s fearless leader and Eclipse globalization guru Kit Lo put together a pseudo translation language pack, and it’s available for download. Essentially, it takes all your externalized strings and prefixes them with ‘eclipsennnnn:’
The Babel Pseudo Translations Language Packs can help:
identify hard-coded strings; a string is hard-coded if it does not have the special prefix
identify [...]
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