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    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...

    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 open source rules of engagement , and are consistently...

    Eclipse Foundation Specification Process Step-by-Step

    Friday, March 8, 2019 - 08:52 by Wayne Beaton
    Scientific progress goes “boink”? – Hobbes The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) provides a framework and governance model for developers engaged in the process of developing specifications. Specification : A specification is a collection of related artifacts. The EFSP defines a specification as a “collection of Application Programming Interface (API)...

    The Eclipse Foundation and GSoC 2019

    Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 23:54 by Wayne Beaton
    The Eclipse Foundation has been selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2019. This is our fourteenth year participating in this awesome programme that matches (and funds) post-secondary students with open source software projects for the summer term (in the northern hemisphere). Eclipse Committers: if you’re are...

    EFSP: The Specification Committee Votes

    Monday, January 21, 2019 - 12:40 by Wayne Beaton
    One key difference between Eclipse open source software projects as defined by the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), and open source specification projects as defined by the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) is that specification projects must be aligned with exactly one specification committee . More generally, specification projects are aligned...

    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 I decided to take a harder look at the data to see if...

    Eclipse Development Process 2018

    Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - 08:12 by Wayne Beaton
    On December 7/2018, the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors approved a new edition of the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) which introduces one particularly significant change, along with a small number of other useful changes. We rolled this new edition out on December 14/2018. Note that project teams who are familiar...

    EFSP: Creation

    Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 11:22 by Wayne Beaton
    The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) includes an image that provides an overview of what goes into creating a new Specification Project . By creating , we mean the process of taking a Specification from an initial idea or concept through to the point where the necessary resources and permissions...