Blog Posts

The term “open and transparent” rolls off your tongue. While somewhat more cumbersome to say, I tend to prefer reversing the order: “transparent and open”. I prefer this because I believe that transparent precedes open; and far more open source projects are transparent than are open. In my experience most...

For the last 3 years we have done a survey of the Eclipse community to better understand what developers are doing with Eclipse and open source. The survey results have provided some interesting insights into the trends of the general software development community. We have now launched the 2012 edition...

This morning the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that Eclipse has been awarded the Software System Award. This is truly a prestigious honour. To put this into perspective, past winners of this award include systems such as Java, Apache, Mosaic, the World Wide Web, Smalltalk, and UNIX. Awarded to...

Creating an Common Build Infrastructure (CBI) at Eclipse has been one of our holy grail pursuits over the years. My main goal in this effort has been to get Eclipse committers out of the build business so that more time and energy can be focused on actually writing software (which...

The Google Summer of Code 2012 students have been announced, and I’m very happy to report that Google selected twelve exceptional student project proposals for the Eclipse Community. The Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project picked up two student projects: Future enhancements for Salvo Newsreader, and OSGi Remote Services Testing framework...

The Eclipse Foundation has evolved a pretty impressive application lifecycle management story. Based on what I’ve observed over the years, I believe that it’s completely reasonable to say that our ALM story is one of the best in the world: the envy of hundreds of open source projects and closed...

Today, the pending OpenStack Foundation announced an impressive list of 20 companies that will be supporting the creation of the Foundation. I have a lot of respect for what the Open Stack community has accomplished and the formation of a non-for-profit Foundation seems like a great next step. However, this...

EclipseCon had a ton of great speakers and content. This year we asked the attendees to provide on-line feedback on each session they attended and over 250 attendees gave a +1, 0 or -1 to at least one session or tutorial. We have published a summary of all the session...

Thank you to everyone who attended EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect last week. It was an awesome experience and I enjoyed meeting so many new people in the Eclipse community. A special thank you to all the sponsors who through their support make the conference possible. A couple of important...

EclipseCon finally arrives next week. The Cherry Blossoms appear to be in full bloom in DC, our sponsors are ready, and we have an awesome program lined up. It should be a great week! A couple of reminders: 1. We have a great line up of products for our New...