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Bug 195539

Summary:	eclipse.tools.emf and eclipse.technology.emft missing from search choices
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Ed Merks <Ed.Merks>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	nboldt
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Ed Merks

2007-07-05 11:26:27 EDT

This link has stopped working I believe because the choice for eclipse.tools.emf is missing from the search dialog

http://www.eclipse.org/search/search.cgi?cmd=Search%21&form=extended&wf=574a74&ps=10&m=all&t=5&ul=%2Fnewslists%2Fnews.eclipse.tools.emf&wm=wrd&t=News&t=Mail

eclipse.technology.emft is AWOL too...

Comment 1 Nick Boldt

2007-07-05 12:56:10 EDT

Confirmed, newsgroups are missing from the dropdown list. 

And yet, they're listed here:

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/project-info/newsgroup

and here:

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/project-info/project-info.xml

Should they be listed somewhere else, too? How does that dropdown get populated?

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2007-07-05 14:42:36 EDT

The search drop down is updated manually, and the emf and emft groups were removed when those projects 'moved' to new modeling newsgroups in order to prevent people form trying to search/post to closed lists. 

I've added them back into the list, and marked them as closed.

-M.

Comment 3 Nick Boldt

2007-07-05 14:50:18 EDT

I was under the impression that because there has yet to be found a solution for moving (renaming) a newsgroup (eg., from eclipse.tools.emf to eclipse.modeling.emf) that we'd all decided (last year some time?) to keep the old tools.emf and tech.xsd newsgroups active because they have a long history of already-been-answered questions.

If you can come up with a way to rename the old newsgroups to their eclipse.modeling.* new names, then by all means, the old ones can be marked closed; however, until that time I believe Ed will want the "old" ones to be marked "open" because they are in fact still being actively used.

Reopening bug to request removal of the "(Closed)" label in the dropdown.

Comment 4 Nick Boldt

2007-07-05 14:52:59 EDT

Also, eclipse.technology.xsd is missing from the list. ;-)

Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster

2007-07-05 14:57:41 EDT

Updated and added.

At this time there still is no way to rename a newsgroup.

-M.