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The last few weeks have seen two great articles discussing the openness and transparency of the Eclipse community. The two reports were completely independent of one another, but both highly valued the open and transparent data we make available about our projects, and the vendor-neutral governance model that helps sustain...

During a meeting yesterday, I was forced to think about the scene (not entirely safe for work) in Monty Python’s Life of Brian when the protagonist is introduced to the People’s Front of Judea. In this meeting we were discussing the creation of a new open source foundation. What made...

Today we hit our goal of 500 Friends of Indigo. Thank you to everyone that participated. Your contribution and support of the Eclipse community is definitely appreciated. Of course you can still join our Friends of Eclipse at anytime of the year. And who was #500, that honour goes to...

In November, the Eclipse community will be celebrating 10 years since Eclipse was made available for download. At LOT has happened during those 10 years so we want to celebrate. The big party will be at EclipseCon Europe but we want to do more. Right now I am looking for...

I recently blogged about some a new project summary page design that I’ve been tinkering with. Here’s what it looks like: The page is entirely data-driven from project metadata. The title comes from the projectname metadata entry; if this entry is not specified, the value is obtained from the projects...

In the last week I am very pleased to announce CloudBees and Jaspersoft have both joined as a member of the Eclipse Foundation and both released new solutions for Eclipse developers. For some people, it might be a surprise to have these companies join the Eclipse Foundation since they are...

I just got home from Germany after a whirlwind trip to join the Eclipse Democamps in Hamburg and Berlin. And now it’s time to head back already. Next week is the Open Forum in Stuttgart, and I have the great honour of joining an all star cast of keynotes including...

I have some news! EclipseCon North America is moving from our long-term home in Santa Clara. We love the location there and the team at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara has been wonderful to work with. But after six years in a row it was time to try something new...

The Eclipse Development Process doesn’t make any specific requirements on what projects are supposed to distribute. Projects are required to operate in an open and transparent manner, so I guess that we could say that project are required to distribute their source code. And they do distribute source code via...

A few months ago, I set about updating the look of the project summary pages that we automatically generate for projects. The code in the current project summary pages is, frankly, pretty brittle and I used the opportunity to do a little refactoring and add a little structure. I’m pretty...