Wayne Beaton's blog

We have three reviews are scheduled for the week of April 20-27/2011. You can provide feedback on these reviews on the channels indicated in the review documents, or on the eclipse.proposals forum. As is their tradition, the EGit and JGit projects have combined their respective 0.12.0 releases into a convenient...

I, for one, welcome our new PMC overlords. I am very pleased to announce a change in the Technology Project Management Committee (PMC). My friend, Gunnar Wagenknecht–a well known figure in the Eclipse community–has relieved me of my duties as the Technology PMC Lead (I will stay on as a...

I’m at it again. I’ve made myself the project lead for yet another project and have nominated myself as a committer. This time, my target is Dash (you may recall that my last step toward world domination involved the Dashboard subproject). Slowly… bit by bit… I am taking over… The...

As many of you are already aware, we started a new Friends of Eclipse Disbursements programme this year through which we are making funds gathered through “ Friends of Eclipse” available to the community. Chris blogged about this in January. To get access to these funds, you need to open...

Over the past six months or so, I’ve monitored conversations concerning the migration of project code from CVS to Git in the dev-lists of several projects. Most developers, it seems, understand the value proposition of migrating, despite their concerns that with migration comes a whole lot of new learnin’ as...

Greetings Eclipse committers (especially those of you who are working on projects in the Indigo release train). Here are some important dates. We will be assembling the annual road map at the end of January. As part of this, we need the project plans for those projects that are participating...

Tonight, I did what I do every night: try to take over the world. The Eclipse Dashboard project has been stagnant for a while with no project lead or active committers, so–per the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), Section 4.6–I decided that the existing project leadership was dysfunctional and replaced it...

We at the Eclipse Foundation have been working with the Committer Reps to make a significant portion of the Friends of Eclipse money directly available to committers. Our intent is to help you do great things for the benefit of the Eclipse community. The amount of money that we have...

Before the break I started working on adding support for Git into the Eclipse Dashboard. I’m almost done. In fact, I have managed to generate the data for several projects: those projects that have correctly specified the location of their git repositories on our “dev” server. Or at least those...

A few minutes ago, I posted two exciting new project proposals. WindowBuilder is already known as one of the best Java GUI builders on the market. It supports both SWT and Swing and is fully bi-directional, meaning that you can work on the code or the visual design – it’s...