EDP

The 2015 Revision of the Eclipse Development Process

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 15:33 by Wayne Beaton
The Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors approved a new revision to the Eclipse Development Process in its meeting on November 2/2015. It took effect—replacing all previous versions—on December 2/2015. This is a minor revision that primarily updates the document to reflect the evolving reality of how our open source projects...

Introducing the EclipseCon Europe 2015 Hackathon

Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 15:52 by Wayne Beaton
Alternate title: I Went to EclipseCon Europe and What I Saw There Blew My Mind… EclipseCon has great tutorials and sessions. The speakers are second-to-none, and the networking opportunities are fantastic. if you’re looking for it, you’ll find software developers doing amazing things together. For EclipseCon Europe 2015 , we’re...

New Eclipse Project Handbook

Monday, August 10, 2015 - 11:55 by Wayne Beaton
For a very long time, I’ve wanted to completely rewrite our documentation for projects and committers. I finally gave it a big push last quarter and have completed a first big revision. There’s still more work to do, but I believe that the new document is very close to being...

It’s Time to Revise the Eclipse Development Process: 2015 Edition

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 13:05 by Wayne Beaton
Every couple of years, I work with the Eclipse Architecture Council to revise the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). The EDP is the document that describes the structure of projects, relationships between projects and committers, and the sorts of activities that projects are expected to engage in. After many years and...

PMI Facelift

Friday, January 17, 2014 - 08:13 by Wayne Beaton
The Project Management Infrastructure (PMI) is still, frankly, a little too ugly for my liking. A proper facelift with the help of a graphics designer and somebody who knows a thing or two about designing websites is still required (and planned). Having said that, we’re taking a small step forward...

The Eclipse Development Process 2014

Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 17:13 by Wayne Beaton
At the beginning of October 2013, I delivered a draft of the next revision of the Eclipse Development Process to the Eclipse Architecture Council for their review and approval. The “delivery” was actually pretty uneventful as the council has been actively involved in the construction of this draft for several...