Blog Posts

Bug 331397 suggests that we should add a little something about project namespaces into the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). In my mind, there are at least a couple of problems with this: I’d really like to avoid adding anything to the EDP; and we stopped being a Java/OSGi exclusive club...

I am spending a fair bit of time researching the M2M and IoT industry. There is a lot of really interested stuff being created and being written. I am going to start trying to capture and share some of the more interesting content in what I hope weekly blog posts...

Last week, I wrote about the creation of a “Call Home” policy for Eclipse projects. It’s been a busy week that’s seen a lot of discussion on Bug 413169 and the Cross Project Issues Dev mailing list. “Hi honey, it’s me. There’s a double rainbow. It’s so beautiful.” The discussion...

Eclipse project teams: this post is for you. It’s time for Eclipse Projects to start announcing their participation in the Eclipse Luna 2014 Simultaneous Release. All aboard the Release Train I’ve changed the way things work with regard to keeping track of who is participating in the simultaneous release. Previously...

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...

Today, we did a press release about the success we are having creating an open source community for the M2M industry and the Internet of Things (IoT). TechCrunch has a very nice article about why this is important. I believe we are seeing three trends that will accelerate the adoption...

Last week I had the opportunity to attend and speak at OSCON, the annual gathering of open source people. This year I spoke in two sessions about open source foundations: 1) a tutorial called Community Foundation 101 and 2) a session that introduced 6 of the larger foss foundations. The...