Archive for February, 2009
Eclipse.org gets a few more Terabytes
We’ve just added a few Terabytes of disk storage, and not a moment too soon: our 800GB array only had 84GB left. The new storage is currently being used for all the downloads, but I expect to also use it for the Common Build Infrastructure effort that’s in the works. I’m anxious to see how [...]
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Poll results: let’s talk servers and sysadmin stuff at EclipseCon
Yesterday I conducted a highly accurate poll asking whether anyone would want to talk sysadmin stuff at EclipseCon. It’s a developer-oriented conference, so I thought the question was valid.
What I learned was that either most of the respondents are liars, or my polling software is flawed. I mean, 32 respondents said their name is Gunnar. [...]
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Poll: Anyone want to talk servers/networks at EclipseCon?
Many people looking to set up a server farm based on OSS regularly send me questions about the Eclipse.org server infrastructure. I enjoy discussing our setup, because I think for the most part, it works well (sometimes it doesn’t, we all have our moments!).
Karl and I will be at EclipseCon this year, and we both [...]
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Novell keeps on giving
It occurred to me that our SUSE Linux Server subscription was about to expire, so I begged asked our friends at Novell if they would consider renewing it. This subscription gives us access to online updates for our SLES 10 server OS.
They were easily convinced
Eclipse.org runs on many server platforms: IBM POWER, Intel [...]
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Closing in on 300 Releases
That’s 300 releases of the Foundation’s Portal. We’re likely to hit that number this week. Since the Portal rolled out for the first time a little over two years ago, we’ve managed to release an average of two updates a week to the code that brings the community things like automated committer elections, management of [...]
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Eclipse disk space
In the ‘a picture is worth 1000 words’ category:
+5 TB?? +1 !
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jarsigner, keytool and expletives
I’ll admit to being totally incompetent in this field, but maintaining a JAR signing infrastructure is hard work every three years or so.
After RTFM’ing it back in 2006 and exchanging more emails with Verisign support than I would have liked, I finally made it possible for Eclipse projects to sign code in April ‘06, using [...]
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