Archive for the 'UDC' Category
New Information in UDC Reports
I’ve tweaked the way that the existing reports of usage data are being generated. For each type of report, we now include the bundle information (symbolic id and version). With this, you can see how many users are using particular versions of views, editors, commands, etc. You can browse the reports, or download CSV-formatted versions [...]
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Upcoming Project Reviews
We some reviews coming up on September 16. First is a release review for Visual Editor. I think that this should come as a great relief for many in the community; I see lots of questions about this on various mailing lists and forums. Further, I tend to get at least one personal email message [...]
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UDC Data Update
The Eclipse Usage Data Collector has been running for several months now. I spent a few minutes yesterday cleaning up the presentation of the data.
The Usage Data Collector page on eclipse.org now has fresh links to the report data. You’ll notice some changes. For example, all the report data is available in CSV (comma-separated values) [...]
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Wanna see some numbers?
I’ve got some numbers from from the usage data collector for the month of July. It’s the first full month of real data. Currently, I’ve only got data for commands, views, editors, and perspectives used; the information is restricted to only show those entries that start with “org.eclipse.”. You can change the sort order of [...]
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Holy Cow!
Participation in the Usage Data Collector has been nothing short of outstanding. As of this moment, we have gathered usage data from more than 22,000 users (more than 20,000 new participants this month alone). The usage trends page shows this in a cool graph.
The other reports that we’ve generated are a little out of date [...]
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Project Pairing Visualization
At Nick’s suggestion, I’ve been tinkering with using Zest to visualize the project pairing data that I’ve spend so darned much time gathering from the Usage Data Collector results over the past week.
This image was generated using the “Spring graph” layout algorithm to represent how closely related the various projects are.
The spring layout algorithm pulls [...]
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Project Pairing reports: Now with column sorting!
Last week, I wrote about a new report I added for the UDC data that shows project pairings “in the wild”. In a comment, Nick effectively killed my weekend. Nick, my wife’s not happy with you. I showed her your picture. Be careful.
The report can now be sorted on columns. Actually, this part was easy [...]
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Project pairings
I decided that it might be cool to find out which projects are being used together in the wild, so I wrote a new report using data collected by the Usage Data Collector (UDC). The report shows a table where each row contains a pair of projects and a number. The number represents the number [...]
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Usage Data Collection and Testing
Earlier this week, while helping James prepare some words to include in this week’s EclipseZone newsletter on the Usage Data Collector (UDC), a thought occurred to me (which I included in the text): the information gathered by the UDC should help in testing.
Think about the magnitude of the testing problem that faces Eclipse projects. Consider [...]
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Lots of custom views, editors, and perspectives; not so many commands
If you take a look at some of the recent reports generated from the usage data collector, you may notice that there are a lot of custom (i.e. not from eclipse.org) views, editors, and perspectives out there, but not so many custom commands.
This is merely my own observation based on what I see in the [...]
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