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I love hearing what people are doing with Eclipse. It really is amazing the great software people have built on top of Eclipse. This is why at EclipseCon, I love to attend the sessions where users show what they have been doing with Eclipse. It is a great way to...

EclipseCon is in about a month, and we are so excited about what’s cooking for M2M this year! Today, we contributed Mihini source code, after an initial review that took longer than what we initally planned, and EclipseCon in Boston will be the first opportunity for you to get a...

I’m very happy to announce that we are going to be making some fairly significant changes to the workflows and processes around how contributions flow into Eclipse projects, and how Eclipse committers will process them. The good news is that we think that the new approaches are going to make...

As many know, Eclipse 4 is now the default platform for the Eclipse community. Many people in the community are now investigating how to migrate to Eclipse 4 and how to take advantage of the new platform capabilities. A great source of information for people looking to adopt Eclipse 4...

I am very happy to report that after a little bit of conversation, the JRuby project has moved from the Common Public License (CPL) to the Eclipse Public License (EPL). So as of this moment, JRuby is tri-licensed under the EPL/LGPL/GPL. This is an excellent reminder to all remaining CPL-licensed...

This year we are running two special ‘executive’ events at EclipseCon and ALM Connect: 1) Open Source Executive Summit and 2) ALM Connect Executive Day. These events are meant to address the business issues and strategies IT executives need to consider when creating a modern software development team. The Open...

Earlier today, we started a pretty bold move from one data centre to a brand-spanking new one across the city. I say bold, because we had to take ourselves completely offline while we disconnected more than thirty bits of hardware, shipped it across the city, and then reassembled it all...

I’ll admit that a really big part of me wanted to see who would notice. Last week, I relatively quietly changed how we represent project metadata by switching parts of the Eclipse projects website and the corresponding elements in the developer portal over to the new Project Management Infrastructure (PMI)...

Most of the open source projects that I’m familiar with don’t tend to take significant contributions unless they come with development resources. Taking on significant new functionality can be pretty daunting for development teams that are already stretched. But how do you on-board new developer (committers) while observing the open...

Over the next couple of days, many of you might notice a new donation page when you download Eclipse. We are starting to roll-out this new page to encourage more of our user community to support the activities of the Eclipse Foundation. The last couple of years we have had...