Blog Posts

My previous entry spoke of an open source project’s responsibility to keep their community informed. In that entry, I focused on a big part of a project’s outbound communcation: the project website. Communication, though, extends beyond outward communication. A successful project needs to be connected to the community and that...

I receive a lot of email from the community. Much of it is from frustrated users who are trying to make something work. Here’s a recent example: The problem was that I didn’t realise that the [project] comes ON TOP of Eclipse…I thought that the [project] was something separate and...

If you follow me on Twitter ( @waynebeaton), then you may have noticed that I’ve been doing a reasonably good impression of the Grim Reaper. A lot of Eclipse projects have been terminated over the last couple of weeks. There’s more to come. Termination of projects is a pretty natural...

The ALM Connect and EclipseCon Call for Papers deadline is less than 2 weeks away. We have some great submissions already but we want to see a lot more. The official call for papers provides all the detail but there are some areas where I’d like to see even more...

The topic of good governance for open source projects is something I think is really important for the long-term success of any open source project. In an effort to describe some of the best practices, I have written a guest blog post for the Open Source Delivers blog. For a...

Google is a great supporter of Eclipse and open source in general. Therefore, I am always thrilled to have the opportunity to organize a new Eclipse Day at the Googleplex. This will be the fifth year we have organized the event and each year it proves to be a great...

The Orion team has announced their 1.0 release, a major milestone for this new tooling platform for the web, in the web. Or if you prefer, for the cloud, in the cloud. For those who are not familiar with Orion, you may want to read my introductory blog post when...

Eclipse Committers at EclipseCon Europe: if you see me wandering around, or sitting in a talk or at table, please come and introduce yourself. I’d like to meet you. Earlier tonight, I tweeted an observation: The EGit project doesn’t use its name in UI contributions. This helps the project feel...

I am very happy to welcome Google as the newest Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation. This is important, and exciting news for the Eclipse community. Google will be joining CA Technologies, IBM, Oracle and SAP as the backbone of the Eclipse Foundation’s funding, as each of these companies are...

Some people might have noticed the download numbers for some of the more popular products on Eclipse Marketplace have taken a huge jump. For instance, Maven Integration for Eclipse has jumped to over 30,000 successful installs per month from the typical 6000-7000 installs per month. We first discovered the large...