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Next week is JavaOne and in a strange way I am looking forward to attending. I actually think Oracle is finally getting its groove around Java. There seems to be an energy that I am hoping will materialize next week. The keynotes are often an important barometer for setting the...

I am pleased to announce we are having our fourth Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on November 30th. Each year this event highlights some Eclipse projects and products being created by Google that are based on Eclipse. This year we have sessions on the Android Development Tools, Google Plugin for...

Next year at EclipseCon 2012 we are introducing a new co-located conference called Agile ALM Connect. As the name hopefully conveys, this conference will focus on the tools and methods that make software developers and teams more successful across the entire lifecycle. I believe this is the perfect time and...

For reasons that are difficult to articulate, I can’t get a particular Mitsou song out of my head (a little glimpse into the horrors of the early-90s late-80s Canadian music scene). But anyway… The Eclipse Foundation has decided to shut down the Eclipse Usage Data Collector. This decision was made...

You may have noticed that Git is a pretty big deal at Eclipse. We’ve come a long way since the topic was first broached at EclipseCon 2006. As of today, we have 61 projects at Eclipse with Git repositories. Of our 270 projects, 197 have source code repositories, which means...

Eclipse is turning 10 this November and we want to have a BIG party. EclipseCon Europe will kick-off for the celebration but we want to have birthday parties around the world. In fact, I would like to see at least 50 parties in different countries around the world. 10 years...

The Contribution Questionnaire (CQ) is the entry point into the Eclipse intellectual property (IP) due diligence process (the full process is defined in the Due Diligence Process poster). The term CQ has expanded from it’s original meaning. Originally, CQs were literally a questionnaire filled out by a project committer to...

Last week, I vetoed four committer elections for two Technology projects. Two weeks ago, I counselled another PMC about their approval of an election that I would also have vetoed. I hate saying no to people. Committers are elected to Eclipse projects after establishing merit with the project. The measure...

I continually think about ways that we can improve the Eclipse Development Process and the various bits of infrastructure and process that exist to support it. The whole review process has always been troubling for me because it’s really turned into a bit of a rubber stamp process. Early on...

We are putting together plans for the Eclipse 10th Birthday. One thing we would like to have is a nice graphic that we can use on our web site and maybe on t-shirts. If you are graphically inclined and have some ideas, I have started a CrowdSpring project to solicit...