Golly… updating articles is hard work…
Today I’ve been working through some of the outstanding bugs raised against existing articles in Eclipse Corner. It’s a lot of work, but most of the changes are relatively small things that are relatively easy to fix. It’d be nice if the authors could fix the problems themselves, but I understand what it takes to find time for such things. I have nothing but respect for Eclipse Corner authors and can relate to the challenge of finding time to make these updates.
Today, I managed to update a minor bug in some sample code for “Creating JFace Wizards” by Doina Klinger. The bug, unfortunately, had nothing to do with the main focus of the article, but was none-the-less distracting to readers. From the comments in bug #101884, and based on my own quick review of the paper, the advice it gives is still pertinent and correct. This, in my opinion, is a sign of a particularly good article: it stands the test of time (the original was created in 2002). That’s not to suggest that articles containing great information that go out of date are bad; they’re also very good.
I also fixed a bug in the sample code for “How to Write an Eclipse Debugger” based on comments left in bug #81575.
There were some other minor edits in some of the other articles. I’m going to continue working through the outstanding bugs. I can’t promise that I’ll get to them all, but I’m going to try. In the meantime, you can make my job harder for me: if you know of any problems in any of the articles, please create a bug report in Bugzilla. Be sure to set the classification=”Eclipse Foundation”, product=”Community”, and component=”Articles”; if you do this, I should get notified immediately.
Posted January 18th, 2006 by Wayne Beaton in category: Other
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Denis Roy Says:
January 18th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
This link should bring you to the Articles bugzilla component.
Wayne Says:
January 18th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
Very nice. Thank you.
Ed Burnette Says:
January 19th, 2006 at 9:37 am
You’ve been doing a super job with those articles Wayne. I’m very happy with your work as the new chief editor.
–Ed (the old chief editor)
Wayne Says:
January 19th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Thanks Ed. That means a lot coming from you.
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August 18th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
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