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Eclipse Contributor Agreement 3.0

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - 17:03 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA) is an agreement made by contributors certifying the work they are contributing was authored by them and/or they have the legal authority to contribute as open source under the terms of the project license.

Specification Scope in Jakarta EE

Monday, April 8, 2019 - 10:56 by Wayne Beaton

With the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) a single open source specification project has a dedicated project team of committers to create and maintain one or more specifications. The cycle of creation and maintenance extends across multiple versions of the specification, and so while individual members may come and go, the team remains and it is that team that is responsible for the every version of that specification that is created.

Renaming Java EE Specifications for Jakarta EE

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 10:17 by Wayne Beaton

It’s time to change the specification names…

Progress and Release Reviews

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 12:36 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) requires that a project team engage in a successful progress or release review before creating a formal release. We use progress and release reviews as an opportunity to validate that a project team is following the

Eclipse TLP Contributors by Quarter

Thursday, December 20, 2018 - 16:22 by Wayne Beaton

Alexander posted an interesting tweet the other day.

92 different contributors to Eclipse in the last 3 months aka 4.10 . This is probably(not checked) a record high !!! https://t.co/AP6bHj5G3g

— Alexander Kurtakov (@akurtakov) December 17, 2018

License Certification (Mostly) Just Happens

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 13:17 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy defines two types of intellectual property (IP) due diligence for third party content. The so-called Type A Due Diligence is concerned exclusively with license certification; and Type B Due Diligence is concerned with license certification, provenance checking and a deep dive scan of the content for various anomalies.

Regarding the analysis of Type A third party content, the IP Policy makes this statement:

Language Server Protocol Talks at Eclipse Converge and Devoxx US

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 14:52 by Wayne Beaton

I’m particularly interested in learning more about Language Server Protocol at the combined Eclipse Converge and Devoxx US conferences at the end of March. We have a handful of projects doing work on the topic, and the opportunity to connect directly with the developers doing the work is too good of an opportunity to miss.

I’m hoping to fit the following talks into my schedule.

What’s Your (IP Due Diligence) Type?

Friday, January 13, 2017 - 14:01 by Wayne Beaton

Long-time Eclipse Committer, Ian Bull initiated a interesting short chat on Twitter yesterday about one big challenge when it comes to intellectual property (IP) management. Ian asked about the implications of somebody forking an open source project, changing the license in that fork, and then distributing the work under that new license.

These Are the Daves I Know

Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 11:07 by Wayne Beaton

Over the years, many people have contributed to Eclipse projects, including some thirty-nine software developers (39) named Dave or David. This list includes everybody who has ever made a least one contribution to one of the many projects that have opted to participate in the Neon Simultaneous Release since the beginning of time as recorded in our Git commit logs.

Great Fixes from Till Brychcy

Friday, May 13, 2016 - 14:28 by Wayne Beaton

Our third winner in the Great Fixes for Neon skills competition is Till Brychcy.

Till has used the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) since 2003, and made his first contribution in 2013. In the time between the 2015 Mars release and today, Till has had 41 separate commits accepted by the JDT project team—most of which provide improvements in the null analysis support—adding almost 20K net new lines of code.

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