Lunar Ocean Y’a pas anguille sous roche, mais probablement baleine sous gravillon…

Our webmasters are having a rough time, the downloads area is down because there were recent issues with mirrors. All my sympathy goes to them.

I think we can help. I filed 266380 today:

Would it be feasible that we make I-builds and N-builds, that are most of the
time only available on the Canada website, to be available as torrents ?

People would help each other downloading them and depend a bit less on the
server.

I myself would be happy to set a high ratio on such torrents.

I think we could have a script to create torrent files in the same way we have a script to push files to mirrors. I welcome your feedback, and I hope we can all help eclipse.org stay up soon.

Wow, I received an email to RSVP to ECSS, the EclipseCon Strategy Summit.

The program consists of an analyst report, a pound of legal advice, two servings of feedback on open source strategies and a final panel.

The content looks good, there’s plenty of good and experienced speakers, it’s all well scheduled and planned.

Though, I tend to believe this kind of day would be better served by an unconference style.
I think it would really be thrilling for executives to come down that day, listen to an analyst keynote to get in the mood, and then grab a whiteboard and make their agenda for the day.

I believe that my CEO would be absolutely thrilled to participate to a meeting like that : get to know more people, more projects, coordinate efforts, and maybe even discuss open source strategy.

Of course you should take all this with a grain of salt. Last time I checked there was still written “Software Engineer” on my name tag.

I just had this discussion with Remy Suen:

rcjsuen: toulmean: It is certainly nice that newsgroups answers can be archived whereas IRC isn't.
toulmean: rcjsuen: well. We could archive the IRC discussions with echelog to some extent ?
rcjsuen: toulmean: In a way. I guess part of the issue is that newsgroups postings are generally better formulated than IRC chat logs.
toulmean: rcjsuen: well, yeah, but I prefer IRC because of the human touch.
rcjsuen: But well, it isn't something we can do anything about anyway.
toulmean: yeah. You know eventually we could add a command to KOS-MOS: remember last 5 exchanges with x, y, z
toulmean: and post those exchanges to the newsgroup
toulmean: rcjsuen: then KOS-MOS would send back the url to the message it posted
rcjsuen: I don't know about that.
toulmean: rcjsuen: so all the guys asking hard questions can ask them, then we push the questions to the newsgroup, so there is no overlap.
toulmean: rcjsuen: otherwise people ask once, two, thee times in different places. It's hard.
rcjsuen: Right.
toulmean: rcjsuen: just an idea, do what you want with it.
rcjsuen: toulmean: When I remember to (which I usually don't), I try to put the question in the FAQ when it's been asked a lot.
toulmean: rcjsuen: let's about it again later ? let's let it sink a bit.

What do you think ? A keeper ?

CDT, as in C Development Tools, is currently under represented on IRC, as in Internet Relay Chat.

We get a lot of questions about it on the #eclipse channel on Freenode. Some people complain about content assist not working, some have more specific C questions, and so far it sounds like we can’t help with them.

CDT committers, if you have some bandwidth left, please come down here, it’s all fun and community gathering.

If you don’t have time, I understand.