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[eclipse.org-committers] Webmaster Update - new toys
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From the "we just keep giving" dept.
1. Wiki software
2. Live download stats - queued queries
3. Adding documentation help plugins to Infocenter
4. Eclipse.org Search engine
Thanks for taking your precious time to read this stuff. When adding
toys we think it's important to tell you how they work.
1. Wiki software
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In response to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=87949 we've
installed a sandbox Wiki on our test server. It can be reached at
http://phoenix.eclipse.org/eclipsepedia/index.php
A few things to remember:
1) Only committers can add and edit pages[1], and to do so you will
need to "create a wiki account". However we are authenticating against
our secured committer data, which means that you will need to set you
user name and password to the same ones you would use for cvs access.
When you first login you should fill out all of the blank fields and use
the 'Create Account' button on the login page. While this is not
required, if you do not do this you will receive an error message.
Once Wiki knows who you are, you can keep logging in with your
eclipse.org CVS username and password.
2) When you first login you will also see a popup requesting that you
accept the certificate offered by the server, when the Wiki is made live
those popups will disappear.
3) Wikis are a community thing. As such it is completely self serve.
We will not be actively monitoring content or anything else, aside from
availability.
4) The Main Page belongs to all of us - let's use it wisely. An index
of all the projects hosting a Wiki would be nice...
5) If all goes well this Wiki will be transitioned onto
dev.eclipse.org, but the content will not follow.
6) Anyone who wants to come up with an Eclipse Wiki Logo is more than
welcome to do so!
2. Live download stats - queued queries
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We've added the functionality of queueing queries on the Live Download
Stats[2]. For many users, the query would take too long and the browser
would timeout. Simply type your e-mail in the box and the results will
be mailed to you.
Please note that if you need to issue multiple queries, it is more
efficient to submit them all to the queue one after the other than to
submit, wait for results, submit the next, wait for results. Please
don't submit more than 4-5 queries, depending on the load. Server
"main2"[3] handles these.
3. Adding documentation help plugins to Infocenter
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The Eclipse SDK has been operating at http://help.eclipse.org/ for ages,
but we never bothered adding any other doc plugins to it. I recently
added the Birt docs just for fun, but please see
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=100635 and comment on the
possibility of adding your project's doc plugins to the Eclipse
Infocenter help.
4. Eclipse.org Search engine
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The search engine at eclipse.org has been reconfigured to provide better
search results. By default, list and group archives are now *NOT* part
of the results, because they polluted most of the queries people were
submitting. Use the Advanced search to search in group and list archives.
I observed a dozen ramdom search queries we received, ran them myself
and compared our results to a google search for site:eclipse.org and in
most cases, our results were on par or better than Google's (depending
on what you're looking for). It's now a useful tool.
Denis
[1] See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=87949#c9 for the
background on this.
[2] Log in to Committer Tools for this https://dev.eclipse.org/committers/
[3] https://dev.eclipse.org/committers/help/status.php
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