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Archive for April, 2009

Where in the world is …

Posted in Uncategorized on April 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Have you ever wondered where all the Eclipse Committers and Contributors are?  Have a look at the map above, and add yourself.  It’s Zeemaps, so no registration is needed.

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Map of committers, contributors, users

Posted in Uncategorized on April 24th, 2009 | No Comments »

Matt took a few minutes to put together a map of all the Eclipse committers, contributors and users.  Go add yourself — you don’t need to register or anything:
http://www.zeemaps.com/Eclipsecommittersworldwide
Let’s fill this map up!

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Eclipse torrents, part II

Posted in Uncategorized on April 23rd, 2009 | 2 Comments »

In my never-ending quest to save everyone’s bandwidth, I put together some bit torrent files for the EPP packages, and for the Eclipse Classic download.  The tracker and seed are running on a minimalist virtual server, and I’m curious to see if it will be capable of handling the load that our marvellous Eclipse community [...]

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Help translate Eclipse in time for Galileo

Posted in Uncategorized on April 8th, 2009 | No Comments »

At Babel, the Eclipse globalization project, we’re busy getting ready for the Galileo release.  Our goal is to have the most complete, accurate and polished language packs ready for download with Galileo.
After fixing some stats issues, we were excited to see that Eclipse 3.4 is 98.8% complete for Chinese and French, and over 90% complete [...]

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git to replace CVS, Bugzilla, mailing lists, more at Eclipse.org

Posted in Uncategorized on April 1st, 2009 | 5 Comments »

With all the DVCS talk at EclipseCon and in The Bug, I quickly became convinced git is the way to go.  With git, we can not only remove CVS and SVN, but Bugzilla also.  Want to report a bug?  Just file a git.  Got a patch?  Just commit it, and git will figure itself out.
Mailing [...]

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