Archive for the 'misc' Category
HOWTO: Create an archived p2 repo
Generating a p2 repo can be done a number of ways, from the trivial case for a single feature build (add p2.gathering=true into your build.properties file, as discussed with slides and working sample here, to the more elaborate, with signed & packed jars (eg., using the buildUpdate task here).
Just bear in mind one caveat: while [...]
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Mailing List Digestion
Props to Karl for finding & mentioning this. Apologies in advance if this post smacks of “no good deed goes unpunished”, in that the mention of it has yielded this bug.
In addition to the regular mailing list archives at Eclipse.org, there’s now a new way to get your archives, whenever you need to know when [...]
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Do you enloy reasing?
Welcome to the new blog. With this blog, I hope to shed some light on what release engineering is all about, and encourage others to blog about the processes, tools, and best practices in this oft misunderstood discipline. Stay tuned.
If you’d like to be a contributor to this blog, sign up, then drop me a [...]
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Survivor: Gazoo
Over two months have passed since I opened bug 175200, calling for a new Gazoo logo and icon for incubating projects. Many submissions have been considered. The final three need your votes to decide who will walk away with the title of Survivor: Gazoo.
With apologies to Mark Burnett (and none to Jeff Probst)…
It [...]
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Eclipse Bugzilla traffic
Apparently I’m the only person having a ‘Benylin Day‘ today with this nasty cold SWMNBN brought home last week. Seems that Eclipse Bugzilla activity is up insanely high - I just opened two bugs and in the intervening 10 minutes, 330 other bugs were opened too. If I didn’t know better, I’d think it was [...]
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March 3 - 8, 2007
Well, after much back and forth and nail-biting, it looks like I *do* get to go EclipseCON this year. I won’t be presenting as much as I’d like, but hopefully we’ll get to do some BoFs about release engineering. Details on my talk are here. Eventually, I’ll post slides. Thanks to zx for helping [...]
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