Archive for June, 2008
The best laid plans…
Some of you might have noticed that when Ganymede was first launched yesterday, the eclipse.org website was reeeaaallllyyyy slow for a little while.
By way of explanation, I offer the following:
But more seriously, many thanks to Denis, Matt, Nathan and Karl for all of their work in getting our IT infrastructure ready for the deluge.
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I Have Ganymede. Do You?
As a Friend of Eclipse, I was able to download Ganymede this afternoon. Not only did I get it sooner, I got it faster. In fact, thanks to the dedicated bandwidth it was crazy fast to download.
Thanks goes to Denis Roy and the webmaster team. It looks like the Ganymede distribution setup is well architected [...]
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A Simple Thank You
Ganymede is just around the corner, and I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to the many Eclipse committers, project leaders and contributors who have all participated in its success. You have done our community proud.
I was tempted to list some of those who have made particularly significant contributions, but I am [...]
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Using Usage Data
Continuing from yesterday’s post on the Usage Data Collector, I thought we should also describe how we plan to use the UDC data. In the official, lawyer-approved Terms of Use, we have stipulated the following:
The Eclipse Foundation may, in its sole discretion, make available to organizations and individuals, on a case-by case-basis, the data [...]
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Collecting Usage Data
One of our challenges at the Eclipse Foundation is understanding how and what people are using Eclipse. Millions of people come to our web site to download the various projects, find different Eclipse based plug-ins (open source and commercial) and use them to create amazing software. If we can gain insight [...]
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