Wayne Beaton's blog

The programme has been announced for EclipseCon Europe 2013, and I’m in it. I’ll be sharing the stage with my colleagues Denis Roy and Sharon Corbett to deliver the first ever Eclipse Committer Bootcamp. Are you a new committer or project lead for an Eclipse project? Are you thinking about...

In July, I opened Bug 413169 to start a discussion regarding the creation of a “call home” policy for Eclipse projects. The work-in-progress document for the policy is on the Eclipsepedia wiki. A phone with a cord. How quaint. 2006 called, they want their… uh… phone back. The policy is...

I’ve created a working document for the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) 2014 document. I’ve made a few changes, starting with bug 415715 (which is not complete yet). Bug 415715 is concerned with correcting capitalization in the document. The original EDP was written using what I understand as a legal style...

One of my tasks for this quarter is to deliver a draft of an update to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) to the Eclipse Architecture Council for their review. The process that we follow is to open bugs against Community/Architecture Council (prefixed with [EDP]), discuss them, and then incorporate the...

We originally had 72 projects sign up to participate in the Eclipse Juno simultaneous release on June 27/2012. By release day, that number had dropped to 71 with the removal of EMF Query 2 (which has since been terminated). If you scrutinize the table, you may notice that there are...

The Kepler edition of the Eclipse simultaneous release goes live on June 26/2013. It’s an exciting and busy time for Eclipse project committers as they put the finishing touches on their bits, and prepare documentation for the release. The number of projects increases by one from last year’s Juno release...

Students, start your engines… The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student application process started earlier today, April 22/2013. You must apply to participate in the programme through Google’s Summer of Code 2013 website. We have provided an application template that should be available to you through Google’s site. Please use...

Almost all Eclipse Git repositories are mirrored at GitHub. The mirrors were initially set up two years ago by the nice folks at GitHub with relatively little input from us. I provided a simple script–which lists all of our repositories in very simple CSV format–that was used to create the...

The cornerstone, I think, of a good April Fools Day joke is plausibility. The more reasonable or possible the topic, the more likely it is that you’ll fool somebody. I’m not sure what it says about the Eclipse Foundation that so many people really thought that we’d made a decision...

While many projects have claimed success with Git, a great many projects and developers continue to struggle with its adoption. In the fall of 2012, several projects chose to terminate rather than migrate their CVS repositories to Git. We have infrequent reports of commits being erased and general confusion regarding...