Archive for July, 2009

Ready to kick the tires

It’s not done yet, but if you want, go ahead and try out the Eclipse Community Forums. The Control Panel needs work but the rest should function quite well.
If you see anything broken, please comment on bug 284281.

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Newsgroups? No way, let’s call them something else.

While many[1] enjoy the finer charms of NNTP newsgroups, it’s no secret that NNTP is one of those old-school protocols, predating the joys of Facebook, Tweetering and instant texting.
On some blog somewhere, someone suggested I look at FUDForum for Eclipse.org, since it’s one of those cool Forum apps that has the ability to act as [...]

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Eclipse(.org) eclipsing Eclipses on Google

If you do a Google search for Eclipse, you’ll get something like this:
1. Eclipse.org
2. Eclipse Downloads
3. NASA
Youtube plug
4. Eclipse (software) @ Wikipedia
5. Eclipse Awards (nothing to do with us)
6. Eclipse (astronomy) @ Wikipedia
It’s interesting that Eclipse (astronomy) is so overshadowed (pun) by our wonderful Eclipse OSS community. This has at least one person irritated (see [...]

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