Hi, This is the RSS News reader.
It can be disabled via a preference: /instance/org.eclipse.recommenders.news.rcp/newsEnabled Set its value to false to disable automatic news polling. In the UI, the setting can be found at Preferences > General > News > Enable automatic news polling Hope that helps. Johannes Oberhuber, Martin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just noticed another “calling home” kind of feature: > > eclipse-committers-oxygen-M7 shows “polling news feeds” in the > progress occasionally. > > Does anyone know how to turn that off? > > > > Thanks, > > Martin > > -- > > *Martin Oberhuber*, SMTS / Product Owner – Development Tools, *Wind River* > > > > *From: *<[email protected]> on behalf of > Martin Oberhuber <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *Cross issues <[email protected]> > *Date: *Sunday 21 May 2017 at 13:14 > *To: *Cross issues <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen: How to turn off USS? > > > > Thanks so much for the quick answer, Ed! > > > > I’ve added that System Property and will run with it for a while. > > > > Still wondering if USS could also be turned off for the MPC (or > globally for all clients?), but MPC is by far not so important since > users of MPC are already prepared to access the Internet anyways. > > > > Cheers, > > Martin > > -- > > *Martin Oberhuber*, SMTS / Product Owner – Development Tools, *Wind River* > > > > *From: *<[email protected]> on behalf of > "Ed com>" <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *Cross issues <[email protected]> > *Date: *Sunday 21 May 2017 at 10:25 > *To: *Cross issues <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Oxygen: How to turn off USS? > > > > Martin, > > I think -Doomph.setup.sync.skip=true will avoid the use of USS by > Oomph. > > You can host your own index somewhere else as follows: > > > https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring#Hosting_your_own_index_.2F_catalogs > > > > On 21/05/2017 7:36 AM, Oberhuber, Martin wrote: > > Hi cross-project, > > > > While testing the brand-new Oxygen M7 packages, I came across an > issue that I wanted to share. > > Plus, I have no solution yet so I’m looking for help! > > > > At a customer site, I want to use Oxygen Packages, but I’m sitting > behind an authenticating proxy there. > > So I have no Internet access. And if I had, I’d still want to make > sure no data gets sent to the > > Internet from that customer. > > > > I easily found out how to disable AERI, to avoid error reporting > reaching out: > > > https://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Logging#Disabling_AERI_in_builds_and_runtime_Eclipse > > > > *But how can I disable the new USS used by Oomph and MPC?* > > > > I found a related forum thread [1] > <https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1081127/>, but it was > no help. What I need is a System Property to turn off all internet > access. I still want to use Oomph with locally stored setup tasks, > but the attempt using USS or downloading setup.zip must be turned off. > > > > Right now, I’m getting several exceptions logged due to Oomph/USS, > and I want to get rid of them. > > But what concerns me more, I think it is a valid use-case > disabling all sort of “calling home” by Eclipse. > > So I think that documentation on how to turn this off must be > available very easily! > > > > Any help / comments? > > > > [1] https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1081127/ > > > > Thanks, > > Martin > > -- > > *Martin Oberhuber*, SMTS / Product Owner – Development > Tools, *Wind River* > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev -- Johannes Dorn Codetrails GmbH The knowledge transfer company Robert-Bosch-Str. 7, 64293 Darmstadt Tel: +49 6151 2767092 http://www.codetrails.com Managing Director: Dr. Marcel Bruch Handelsregister: Darmstadt HRB 91940
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