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The Commits Dashboard is Happier
The Commits Explorer is now living on one of our AMD machines and is much faster and responsive. The old vserver has been retired due to disk size limitations. This should improve the project summary pages on the main site as well since the activity meter and information about which companies and committers are active [...]
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Friends paying friends for helping friends
You don’t need to pay your friendly Webmaster for saving your butt… But the funds will be put to good use (no, not drinks…) BTW, bug 292476 was initially called “Oops, I’m a dumbass!”
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git repos at Eclipse!
I’m in the process of setting up read-only git repositories of Eclipse CVS projects. You can see the list on this temporary page, and you should be able to use all the repos listed.
Feel free to read (and comment) on bug 280583.
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An open SSH port means SSH attacks
If your Internet-connected computer accepts SSH connections, chances are half the planet is trying to get in to hax0r you — literally. Using Zeemaps and IP geolocation, we can easily plot the values on a Zeemaps.
I’m just kidding about Eric Rizzo.. But Eric, if that is you, don’t count on me for free beer at [...]
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Nice project website
I stumbled across the AMP project website this morning. The first thing that caught my eye was the terrific layout. The second thing I noticed was the context-sensitive top navigation that they are using. This is the first time I’ve seen a project override our $Menu object with some context-sensitive links. Cool! You can see [...]
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Community Forums takes #3 spot for most popular URL
The Community Forums homepage has taken the #3 position as the most visited URL at Eclipse.org, surpassing the main Downloads page. Here’s the new short list:
1. “Find a mirror”
2. Eclipse.org Home
3. Community Forums
4. Main Downloads page
5. Resources
6. Categories
7. Documentation
8. EMF downloads
9. PDT downloads
10. Ganymede SR2 downloads
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Five years @ Eclipse.org
Today is October 1st — my fifth anniversary working at Eclipse. To celebrate, I thought it would be appropriate to compile a THEN and NOW table of Eclipse.org, as seen by an IT guy. As the years go by, some things changed, and some stayed the same…
There is a picture here.
I’m sure that list doesn’t [...]
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Wow, what a painful release this was (is?)
If you were able to upgrade to Galileo SR1/Eclipse 3.5.1 in a timely manner, you were probably just lucky. Even today, 5 full days after the release, our servers are still crawling.
What happened?
In late August, Karl and I had installed our new Cisco load balancer and firewall. Unbeknownst to us, we were dropping connections. A [...]
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Galileo SR1 is here!
Galileo SR1, based on Eclipse 3.5.1, is here! You can fetch your favourite goodies from the usual URL:
http://eclipse.org/downloads/
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Galileo SR1 - available early for Friends of Eclipse
Galileo SR1 is available a day early for Friends of Eclipse. Here is your link:
http://friends.eclipse.org/galileo_sr1.html
Of course, it’s never a bad time to become a Friend:
http://www.eclipse.org/donate/
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