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The Eclipse Foundation is going to start allowing its projects to host their mainline development on third party forges such as GitHub, and (eventually) Bitbucket. This means that an Eclipse project will be able to leverage the great development tools provided by those vendors. The first project that we are...

As we started talking about back in February, the Eclipse Foundation is doing a major overhaul of our IP processes. With the Kepler release now firmly in its end-game, the time has come to start rolling this out. In February, I identified three major pieces of work that needed to...

The results of the Eclipse Community Survey for 2013 are now available. This is the sixth edition of the survey so it presents a nice snapshot of the changes that are happening in the Eclipse community and the wider developer community. A complete report that summarizes the results are available...

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...

EclipseCon France has been a great conference: sessions were interesting, people have been great and Toulouse is a beautiful city. I look forward to coming back next year. It is time to announce the dates and location for EclipseCon NA 2014. We will be hosting EclipseCon NA 2014 at the...

The Eclipse Public License, and its predecessor the Common Public License have been in existence for around 12 years now. A lot has changed since the EPL’s introduction in 2004, and the time has come for a review to ensure it remains current. As a result, we are going to...

I believe this first edition of EclipseCon France will be amazing, and here are the top 5 reasons why I am sure you will share my opinion: 1 The program is fresh and nice — While it was really hard to decline so many great talk proposals, the bright side...

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...

There were a lot of great speakers and sessions at EclipseCon 2013. Based on the evaluations from attendees and estimate crowd sizes for each session, I am please to present the top 10 speakers and top 10 most popular sessions. Most Popular Sessions (Based on a rough count of attendees...