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One of my tasks for this quarter is to deliver a draft of an update to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) to the Eclipse Architecture Council for their review. The process that we follow is to open bugs against Community/Architecture Council (prefixed with [EDP]), discuss them, and then incorporate the...

Today, we did a press release about the success we are having creating an open source community for the M2M industry and the Internet of Things (IoT). TechCrunch has a very nice article about why this is important. I believe we are seeing three trends that will accelerate the adoption...

Last week I had the opportunity to attend and speak at OSCON, the annual gathering of open source people. This year I spoke in two sessions about open source foundations: 1) a tutorial called Community Foundation 101 and 2) a session that introduced 6 of the larger foss foundations. The...

The Eclipse Foundation is going to start allowing its projects to host their mainline development on third party forges such as GitHub, and (eventually) Bitbucket. This means that an Eclipse project will be able to leverage the great development tools provided by those vendors. The first project that we are...

As we started talking about back in February, the Eclipse Foundation is doing a major overhaul of our IP processes. With the Kepler release now firmly in its end-game, the time has come to start rolling this out. In February, I identified three major pieces of work that needed to...

The results of the Eclipse Community Survey for 2013 are now available. This is the sixth edition of the survey so it presents a nice snapshot of the changes that are happening in the Eclipse community and the wider developer community. A complete report that summarizes the results are available...

We originally had 72 projects sign up to participate in the Eclipse Juno simultaneous release on June 27/2012. By release day, that number had dropped to 71 with the removal of EMF Query 2 (which has since been terminated). If you scrutinize the table, you may notice that there are...

The Kepler edition of the Eclipse simultaneous release goes live on June 26/2013. It’s an exciting and busy time for Eclipse project committers as they put the finishing touches on their bits, and prepare documentation for the release. The number of projects increases by one from last year’s Juno release...

EclipseCon France has been a great conference: sessions were interesting, people have been great and Toulouse is a beautiful city. I look forward to coming back next year. It is time to announce the dates and location for EclipseCon NA 2014. We will be hosting EclipseCon NA 2014 at the...

The Eclipse Public License, and its predecessor the Common Public License have been in existence for around 12 years now. A lot has changed since the EPL’s introduction in 2004, and the time has come for a review to ensure it remains current. As a result, we are going to...