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At the risk of playing with words whose connotations I don't fully understand... Eclipse committers have to suffer - a little bit - to be enfranchised. I mean, to get the right to vote in the 2010 Eclipse board member elections, which begin two weeks from today, on February 22, 2010.If you are an individual (not employed by a member company) committer: Please click here, and sign and send the membership agreement to the Eclipse Foundation. This will enable you to vote in the upcoming board member elections. There is no cost, and as an added bonus, the Eclipse Foundation is now sending really nice thank-you e-mails to those individual committers who become members.Why should you do that? Let me try to explain with a diagram:(thanks, diagrammr!)

Drupal's file handling capabilities keep getting better. Beyond the core upload module, the filefield module for CCK has enabled us to build sites with all sorts of files; documents, images, music, videos, and so forth. Searching within these docuements, however, has never been a common feature on Drupal sites. Some solutions have existed, particularly for extracting texts from PDFs and common wordprocessing documents. With Apache Solr, the attachments module, and an extension library called Tika, things can be much better. With Tika you can extract texts not only from Microsoft Office, Open Office, and PDF documents, you can also get text and metadata from images, songs, Flash movies and zipped archives. Searching for these texts is done as part of the normal Apache Solr driven site search.

Commit #324616 by robertDouglass at 14:57
Apache Solr Search Integration: /modules/apachesolr/contrib/apachesolr_date/directory NONE
Directory /cvs/drupal-contrib/contributions/modules/apachesolr/contrib/apachesolr_date added to the repository
--> Using per-directory sticky tag `DRUPAL-6--2'

Let me write a quick response to Elias' thought-provoking post. I hope there will be other (and not so quick) responses as well - it is important to step back every now and then to assess whether we are going in the right direction. But for now, I didn't want to let the issues he raises without an answer from the e4 team. The question for me is, how can we turn e4 into a juicy and sweet lemon? ;-)Killer feature: I fully agree that support for styling and skinning is not going to be enough of a killer feature to convince everybody that it is worth stepping up to e4. What could be other killer features? To be honest, I am not sure. I would be interested in hearing opinions on this - please leave comments!

Here is how I intend to respond to a private email that I received today, about a bug that was filed yesterday. How would you respond in a similar situation?Hi [X],Thank you for reporting a problem with Eclipse. But - and maybe it's just me - the private email you sent today comes across as demanding. You are asking us to help you quickly, without investing time on your side to make the problem easy to reproduce for us. I understand that it's frustrating when things don't work the way you think they should work. However, remember that Eclipse is free software, and please consider if you are not already getting a lot more than your money's worth.