New Eclipse.org Committers Page

With the release of the new Eclipse.org homepage we've been in the process of updating the main landing pages that are linked from the homepage (Users / Membership / Committers).

So without further ado here's the working version of the new Committers page. http://www.eclipse.org/committers/

I've hijacked Bug 251104 for further discussions on this page. If you have any feedback, missing links, browser bugs, etc please contribute to the bug discussion.

New Downloads Page for Eclipse!

If you've been following bug 242019 you'll see that what was once just an idea has now come to fruition!

Just after we launched the Packaging Site I spent a lot of time thinking about how we could make our main Eclipse downloads page be not so "exclusive" or even "mutually exclusive". We were running into an issue where we had so many things we wanted to showcase on the page, but didn't have enough space to give everyone a kick at the can. We have the packages, the member distros, and over 90 projects to display, it can be a bit confusing.

My goal was to make the downloads page display lots of content, and be able to categorize it, and most importantly make it _easier_ to find what users are looking for. I think I've succeeded, i'm sure that we'll be tweaking it and adding new things to the page in the future.

If you've got any thoughts on the page feel free to leave your comments in the bug.

1 Million Downloads!

Recently I've been working on the Packaging site to update its download counts to be more accurate. I'm proud to say mission accomplished!



The most exciting part of all this is over the past weekend we broke 1 Million Downloads of Ganymede. To be precise the total download count (as of this morning) for all the Packages + The Eclipse Classic Download is 1,168,432

Congratulations, and job well done to the entire Eclipse Community!

*Edit* Apparently my calculator skills failed. Download Count updated!

Eclipse Live is looking for Feedback

One of my tasks for this quarter is to spend some time working on Eclipse Live to make it easier for you to find the webinars, demos, and podcasts that interest you most.

We're looking for your comments on the site in the format
of a web survey. It's really short (only 4 questions) and will only take a quick second to fill it out to let us know what you want.

I'll be using bug 215400 to track the progress of the Live changes in the coming weeks. So feel free to tag along.

Europa Eye Candy

Last week Wayne asked me to create him a Europa Wallpaper that he could use in some screencams he's preparing for the release.

So i created a bunch that are based off the great graphic that Roger Dudler contributed in Bug 187575

So without further ado, here's a preview of the wallpaper.


You can grab them from the Friends of Europa page. While your there why not toss the Europa is Coming animation on your blog or site. Spread the word!

At your Service...

I've been spending a lot of time recently getting one of the new features ready for EPIC. Last year we conducted a survey of the users of EPIC and asked them what some of the things they wanted to see on the site.

The Services Directory is one of those ideas. The goal of this new directory is to give companies a place to list their consulting, and training services on EPIC so they can get there message out to more people.

Before we launch this new directory we'd like to get some data into it, so we're not launching it with an empty data set. If there are any organizations out there interested having their services listed with us here at EPIC drop me a line at support at eclipseplugincentral.com and I'd be more then happy to work with you.

EPIC and the Eclipse Update Manager

A few months back we (the folks at www.eclipseplugincentral.com) put out a survey asking for feedback on the site and how to make it better.

One of the things people requested was a way to better integrate Update Sites into EPIC. Our first change was to add a field to each plugin listing that would store / display the Update Site URL. Now that we've added that the next logical step is to allow you to import Update Sites into Eclipse.

Currently i've developed a script that will generate an XML file of all the update sites currently listed with EPIC. It can be found at http://sandbox.eclipseplugincentral.net/updatesites.xml if you save this file you can then open the update manager and Import Sites with this file. But that seems not quite useful, more then likely you wont be using all of those plugins.

So what's the solution? Would a page on EPIC that displayed a list and allowed you to put check boxes next to them then generate your own XML file be better? I'm looking to the community to help me develop this feature because in the end its you who will use it! If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, feedback please post to Bug 168108.