Blog Posts

Early today we surpassed 500,000 successful install on the Eclipse Marketplace. It is a great milestone. I hope the Drag to Install support we are adding to Indigo will only accelerate the pace of installs via Marketplace.

I’ve been working on some updates to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) that we’ll roll out in August 2011. The main driver behind these changes is some planned changes in the Eclipse Bylaws. The Bylaw change that will most affect the EDP is the removal of the Requirements Council. The...

Yesterday, we had two $1500 contributions to the Friends of Eclipse program. The donations were anonymous but with a comment of: In the name of Boris Pruessmann for his original work on the P4Eclipse plug-in. and In the name of David Corbin for his original work on the P4Eclipse plug-in...

Each year we publish stats on the size of the release train and each year the release train gets bigger and bigger. I just spent some time on Ohloh, calculating the number of lines of code we plan to ship with Indigo. According to Ohloh that number is 45, 792,297...

Next week is the start of the Eclipse Indigo Democamps. We have 30 democamps in different cities so there is lots of opportunity for the Eclipse community to meet and discover the interesting things happening with Eclipse. It is great to see some new cities hosting democamps, like Montreal, Atlanta...

“Is something wrong?”, she said Well of course there is, “you’re still alive,” she said Oh, and do I deserve to be? Is that the question? And if so, if so, who answers, who answers? – Pearl Jam, Alive I take criticisms that the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) is “too...

I’m at Google IO this week. The big highlight for me today was the relatively short set played by Jane’s Addiction during the after hours party. Truth-be-told, I am also pretty stoked about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet that was given out today. I’m looking forward to seeing if...

At Eclipse, we talk a lot about community. Developing a community is an important part of being an open source project. It is from a community of users, adopters, and contributors that a project draws strength and longevity. Without a community, an open source project is just a bunch of...

This is the last week to complete the Eclipse Community Survey. The deadline for participation is May 13, 2011. Please take the time to complete the survey and tell us what you are doing with Eclipse. As an added incentive, to thank those that participate, we will randomly select 5...

Yesterday Oracle announced they have proposed to make Hudson an Eclipse project. Given the past history of the Hudson/Jenkins controversy, this was pretty big news. There has been a fair bit of press coverage and reaction from the community. I’d recommend reading Mik Kersten’s blog post about Tasktop’s participation in...