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[eclipse.org-committers] Webmaster update: Your project's update site, quotas, CVS and more!
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In this issue:
1. Project Update sites on download.eclipse.org
2. Archived builds - thanks!
3. "Eclipse.org is down!"
4. New proposed CVS locations
1. Project Update sites on download.eclipse.org
Many projects are hosting Update sites on download.eclipse.org. While
this is a great idea, it bypasses any mirror sites we currently have in
place. Unless I'm mistaken, Eclipse's Update Manager mirror site support
is only available for the following six projects: Platform, EMF, GEF,
UML2, VE and WTP.
I opened/commented on the following bugs to address some issues:
- Make it easier for eclipse.org projects to be in the Eclipse Features
list: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=107514
- Update Manager should support HTTP redirects, such as the "Find A
Mirror" script: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=99412
As a temporary alternative, you can use the Find A Mirror script to
display URLs to mirrors hosting your update content. For instance,
using the AJDT's project as an example, their downloads page[1] at sais
to use http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/30/update as the
Update manager URL. This URL could be replaced by a link to this:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/ajdt/update&format=plain
Users can then use a nearby mirror to fetch the AJDT content using the
Update Manager.
2. Archived builds - thanks!
I'd like to thank the projects who have moved older builds to the
Archives location. As an added bonus, I claim ownership of all your
archived release builds, giving you back disk space in your quota.
3. "Eclipse.org is down!"
Once in a while a reputed Eclipse committer sends me an e-mail with the
above caption in the subject line without first checking the network
conditions at their own end. This causes an immediate heart attack to
yours truly, followed by irreperable brain damage and occasional twitching.
4. New proposed CVS locations
As per bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=107748, I'd
like to propose new CVS root locations for all the CVS repositories at
eclipse.org. The new paths would be pointers to the physical locations
on the server. The purpose is to abstract the physical location in order
to make it easier for eclipse.org sysadmins to transparently move the
repository to a new physical path should the need ever be.
Please see the bug for more details and to comment and vote.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Denis
[1] http://eclipse.org/ajdt/downloads/
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