Comments on: Mylyn 2.2 released, new webinar available

By: Mik

Mik — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:54:43 +0000

Maarten: we tend to leave out implementation and performance improvement details of that sort from the New & Noteworthy documents in order to avoid them getting too long. In this way some of the most notable improvements to Mylyn are things that users will not notice because they help keep the tool out of their way as they get things done. This one was definitely a useful contribution from you and I bet that a lot of people now simply think that bugs.eclipse.org is running faster On a related note, for Mylyn 2.2 we got rid of forcing the user to specify whether the repository has a cached configuration enabled, so this implementation detail is now completely hidden. Server administrators do need to know about it though, so I moved your instructions to the User Guide. At a later point we could consider creating an administrator guide.

By: Maarten Meijer

Maarten Meijer — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:43:10 +0000

News and Noteworthy should mention in addition to the cached configuration mentioned (using If-Modified headers) that GZIP content encoding is now also supported for the bugzilla connector, not just for the configuration but all interaction. Instructions on how to set up a cached config and gzip yourself are on:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Cached_Repository_Configuration
For full bandwidth savings use mod_gzip (Apache 1.3) or mod_compress (Apache 2)

By: Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:31:22 +0000

Good stuff Mik, keep up the good work.