Bug 120451

Description Tom Roche 2005-12-12 16:36:30 EST

Tom Roche Dec 9, 2005, at 7:19 AM
>>>>>> How can Eclipse users (i.e. non-committers) receive
>>>>>> notification of changes to Eclipsepedia pages? Why I ask:

>>>>>> Rational Common Build (my workgroup) is heavily dependent on
>>>>>> Eclipse's PDE Build process. Thus we are very interested in any
>>>>>> changes that may occur to it, e.g.

Steve Gambino 12/07/05 16:45
>>>>>>>> Not sure if we need to keep apprised of this. The "changes"
>>>>>>>> M2_32 caught my eye.

>>>>>>>>  http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Platform-releng-basebuilder

David Olsen 12/08/2005 05:21:23 PM:
>>>>>>> We should keep an eye on that page.

>>>>>> However I'm not seeing any way for someone who is not an
>>>>>> Eclipse committer to subscribe an Eclipsepedia page, probably
>>>>>> because there is no way for such persons to create an
>>>>>> Eclipsepedia account (though I don't know if your MediaWiki
>>>>>> implementation enables subscription, either).

>>>>>> Am I missing something, or can this functionality be enabled?
>>>>>> Alternatively could page-change messages be echoed to a public
>>>>>> list, e.g. pde-build-dev@eclipse.org?

Tom Roche Dec 9, 2005, at 10:44 AM
>>>>> I just wanna see the changes to one or more pages of interest,
>>>>> e.g. the functionality provided by Wikipedia when one adds a page
>>>>> to one's watchlist.

>>>>> MediaWiki provides that functionality; can it be enabled for
>>>>> non-committers?

Ward Cunningham 12/09/2005 02:27:37 PM:
>>>> Um, do you know if this is enabled for committers now? Maybe a
>>>> committer could check?

Tom Roche Dec 9, 2005, at 12:21 PM
>>> If I was a committer I wouldn't have this problem :-(

Ward Cunningham 12/09/2005 03:24:44 PM:
>> I'll get Bjorn to check this afternoon.

Bjorn Freeman-Benson 12/12/2005 04:13 PM
> I think I passed the buck to Denis, the webmaster.
> In any case, you should enter a bugzilla about it.

Done.