Mike Milinkovich's blog

    Kudos

    Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 18:44 by Mike Milinkovich
    I just received an email out of the blue that really reminded me of how important it is for all of us in the Eclipse community to help our users and adopters. I just wanted to express my appreciation for the help Scott and the ECF team have been providing...

    Differentiating Communities

    Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 17:28 by Mike Milinkovich
    I was asked earlier today if I could describe “ …the Eclipse community and its differences between other traditional commercial open source communities say like Sugar’s and non, or less pure commercial communities like Apache. ” Darn good question. Off the top of my head here are a couple of...

    Welcome to the EPL

    Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 12:00 by Mike Milinkovich
    A bit of good news for the Eclipse Public License this morning comes from Intuit, which announced that their community site code.intuit.com will be using the EPL. Intuit had previously decided to use the Common Public License , but when we pointed out that it had been superseded at the...

    Time to Git Some Progress

    Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 14:05 by Mike Milinkovich
    Git has been growing in popularity, and I am particularly interested in its potential to reduce barriers to participating and contributing to Eclipse projects. There has been a vigorous conversation about using Git for Eclipse projects going on for some time over in bug 257706 , including my own reservations...

    Releasing Galileo

    Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 10:58 by Mike Milinkovich
    Denis pushes the Big Red Button It was smooth as silk this morning as our esteemed Webmaster Denis Roy pushed the “big red button” to unleash Galileo. He had his moment of trepidation, but so far everything has gone very smoothly. Thirty-three projects, 380 committers, 24MLOC+…this is a major software...

    Berlin Board Stammtisch

    Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 23:12 by Mike Milinkovich
    Next week is our first-ever Eclipse Board of Directors meeting outside of the USA. Berlin is our destination, primarily based on the fact that it is a darn cool city. Although Ralph won’t be able to join us, we are going to carry on the tradition he has created and...

    Some New License Flexibility

    Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 14:55 by Mike Milinkovich
    I have been remiss in updating our website with information regarding some decisions made by the Board late last year. Totally my bad. So here is some good news : Projects can license their example code using the Eclipse Distribution License (EDL) as well as the EPL. The advantage to...

    Time Flies

    Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 10:21 by Mike Milinkovich
    Today is a bit of a milestone for me, as it is exactly five years since I assumed the role of Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. I had an inkling that this was going to be a different kind of role when a few days before I even started...

    EPL ~= ASL

    Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 18:45 by Mike Milinkovich
    Boy, am I on some kind of blog binge this week. It’s amazing how a few weeks without travel helps. Dana Blackenhorn wrote a piece earlier today discussing Matt Asay’s article on why the Apache license is better than the GPL. In his article, he states the following: If your...

    LGPL Pain

    Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 09:39 by Mike Milinkovich
    We have been having a debate internally at the Eclipse Foundation whether we need to add the LGPLv2 to the list of licenses that Eclipse projects can use or pre-req. Despite what you may think, this is not an straightforward conversation. The most obvious question is why don’t we allow...