Wayne Beaton's blog

I am the target of a lot of email from the community. Messages that I receive generally fall into three different buckets: Eclipse project stuff from committers and project leads, requests for price quotes, and pleas for help. I do get lots of other types of email, but these are...

The Eclipse webmaster has the necessary bits in place for us to complete our migration to Git: we have begun the process of migrating the eclipse.org website from CVS to Git. As of this moment, the content for nineteen (19) of the 254 subdirectories on eclipse.org are managed via Git...

Sometimes open source projects lose steam. This is the way of things. Developers get pulled off projects. Sometimes the resulting gaps get filled naturally. Diversity in a project is one way of making sure that gaps fill naturally: if the developers from one organization lose interest, then developers from an...

I spent my day today at OSCON 2012. I took the opportunity to attend talks on subjects that I don’t normally get to spent a lot of time with. The quality varied (I was shocked–shocked, I tell you–to learn that mining data out of arbitrarily-formatted HTML is “hard”). I spent...

I’ve proposed a session titled “ Revise the Eclipse Development Process” for EclipseCon Europe 2012: It’s time to revise the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). In this interactive session, we’ll discuss how we can revise and modernize the EDP. This is intended to be the continuation of an ongoing discussion that...

Seventy-two (72) projects signed up to participate in the Juno Simultaneous Release. Some of these projects include one or more subprojects with their participation. Effectively, this means that some subprojects have joined their parents in the release (joint IP Log and release review). In many cases, the related projects share...

Two years of experience doesn’t make you “senior”. Except maybe in high school. I don’t mean this in a negative sort of way. I mean it in a trying-to-help-you-out sort of way. I’ve worked for a relatively small number of companies in my twenty-plus years of professional life. Small by...

I’ve been struggling for a while to think of a good way to implement committer management in the new project management infrastructure. Here’s an example of what we have in the Developer Portal today: This component lists each committer with a visual representation of their contribution status. Using this component...

My son is taking a course in computer programming at his high school. As is the case for many (most?) high school students in Ontario, they’re using a programming language named Turing. I initially hated the Turing programming language. That hate was a bit irrational, as–like many of my peers–I...

An unrelated problem drew my attention to the Understanding Layouts in SWT article. It’s always bugged me that the many screenshots in this article are represented in JPEG format. JPEG is a lossy format that, in my humble opinion, is inappropriate for screenshots as the images end up with odd...