Blog Posts

So the Dash backend process is running. Again. In fact, it’s run to completion once already. Dashing through the snow… er… ice. Dash is the Eclipse Foundation service that provides commit data. Dash is used when we IP Logs, show graphs on project pages, and for general sorts of activity...

A lot of M2M and IoT news coming from Oracle at JavaOne. I am sorry I missed JavaOne this year but Oracle really seemed to stake out a leadership position for themselves and Java in the space. Great to see enterprise vendors, like Oracle, moving in this direction. Java on...

Weekly links from the M2M and IoT Industry M2M Research Report M2M Platforms are re-cast for the age of the Internet of Things – A good white paper from jim Morrish of Machina Research that describes the many different types of M2M platform vendors. Unfortunately he didn’t touch upon open...

Bug 331397 suggests that we should add a little something about project namespaces into the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). In my mind, there are at least a couple of problems with this: I’d really like to avoid adding anything to the EDP; and we stopped being a Java/OSGi exclusive club...

I am spending a fair bit of time researching the M2M and IoT industry. There is a lot of really interested stuff being created and being written. I am going to start trying to capture and share some of the more interesting content in what I hope weekly blog posts...

Last week, I wrote about the creation of a “Call Home” policy for Eclipse projects. It’s been a busy week that’s seen a lot of discussion on Bug 413169 and the Cross Project Issues Dev mailing list. “Hi honey, it’s me. There’s a double rainbow. It’s so beautiful.” The discussion...

Eclipse project teams: this post is for you. It’s time for Eclipse Projects to start announcing their participation in the Eclipse Luna 2014 Simultaneous Release. All aboard the Release Train I’ve changed the way things work with regard to keeping track of who is participating in the simultaneous release. Previously...

The programme has been announced for EclipseCon Europe 2013, and I’m in it. I’ll be sharing the stage with my colleagues Denis Roy and Sharon Corbett to deliver the first ever Eclipse Committer Bootcamp. Are you a new committer or project lead for an Eclipse project? Are you thinking about...

In July, I opened Bug 413169 to start a discussion regarding the creation of a “call home” policy for Eclipse projects. The work-in-progress document for the policy is on the Eclipsepedia wiki. A phone with a cord. How quaint. 2006 called, they want their… uh… phone back. The policy is...

I’ve created a working document for the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) 2014 document. I’ve made a few changes, starting with bug 415715 (which is not complete yet). Bug 415715 is concerned with correcting capitalization in the document. The original EDP was written using what I understand as a legal style...