| [eclipse.org-members-committers] Early Access to Eclipse Galileo and revamped Member Distro Program |
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Membership, As you know, on or around June 24, 2009, the Eclipse Galileo release train will be made
available from eclipse.org/downloads. As with previous years, we are
offering members the ability to get Galileo before it’s pushed live to
eclipse.org/downloads. To access this benefit you’ll need to engage
your IT team to use RSYNC and follow the steps outlined in the attached file “EARLY
ACCESS.TXT”. This year we are making improvements to the Member Distro
program designed to drive more traffic to participants. This benefits the
community by making more bandwidth available. New for Galileo, we are going to inline participating Member
Distros on the “Select a Mirror Page” after end users have selected
a package to download. This allows you to target, or ignore, users
downloading certain packages (such as Modeling) with your distros. Full details on the program can be found at [1]. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments, -
Don [1] - http://www.eclipse.org/membership/special_programs/member-downloads-program.php Donald Smith Director of Ecosystem Development Eclipse Foundation, Inc. P:+1 613 224 9461 x231 C:+1 613 292 5160 F:+1 212 918 1619 |
Thanks for your interest in receiving early access to the Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) release on or around June 24. Here is the process to follow: 1 Email webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx with the IP Address of the machine that you will be running your RSYNC from. For security and performance reasons we do not allow open RSYNC access so you must know and send the IP address of the machine you will be RSYNCing from in advance. You wont be able to connect early via RSYNC until this is done. You should do this well in advance as things might get busy as we near release date... 2 Subscribe to the https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-mirrors mail list. This is the mail list that will receive notifications when the bits are ready and you can start RSYNCing. Hopefully within 48 hours of the official release date. Pay close attention to this mail list. 3 Configure your RSYNC client, using this shell script: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse.org-rsync.sh.txt Configure the YES/NO options to match the projects you are interested in. Please be careful to NOT download full_eclipse as is default in the script (even though the script says this is what most people want, thats for Mirrors) if you leave the script as full_eclipse=yes, you will be downloading 130GB of unnecessary old versions that mirrors host. Configuring the script should be self explanatory email webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx with any questions. You may notice that this process is very similar to how our mirrors will be receiving their updates. But dont worry we wont be adding you as a mirror BUT, if you are interested in becoming a mirror, which would make you best friends with our webmaster, please see: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/mir_request.php