Blog Posts

Today’s announcement that Oracle is proposing to move the Hudson project to the Eclipse Foundation is big news. It’s news because of the popularity of the project, its history and, let’s face it, the Hudson/Jenkins fork that happened a few months back. One of the key issues that split the...

The Indigo release train is a short 7 weeks away. Like last year, we are starting a new recruitment campaign for the Friends of Eclipse, called the Indigo 500. We want to recruit 500 Friends of Eclipse between May 1 and July 31. As a reminder, Friends of Eclipse are...

Most definitions of success for an open source project includes widespread adoption: while the value of the satisfaction you get from writing a great bit of code shouldn’t be undervalued, it’s a great deal more satisfying when something you’ve built gets used by hundreds, thousands, or millions of people. A...

Eclipse projects are required to maintain a log of intellectual property (IP) contributions (an IP Log). This log keeps track of the third-party libraries that are directly referenced and/or distributed by the project, IP contributions made to the project by non-committers, the list of committers, and more. Fortunately, the IP...

Google Summer of Code 2011 is in full swing. Well, it’s almost in full swing: the accepted student proposals were announced today. Many of the students are still wrapping up their winter term exams, so the real fun can’t begin just yet. Today, we enter what Google refers to as...

Last week, I unveiled a new Eclipse Projects Landing page. So far, the feedback I’ve received has been almost entirely positive. Frankly, I figured I’d get beat up over it being “too busy” or something, but I’ve received none of that. The only not-entirely-positive (though not strictly negative) feedback I...

We have three reviews are scheduled for the week of April 20-27/2011. You can provide feedback on these reviews on the channels indicated in the review documents, or on the eclipse.proposals forum. As is their tradition, the EGit and JGit projects have combined their respective 0.12.0 releases into a convenient...

It is that time of year to start thinking about organizing an Eclipse DemoCamp. Each year we run a series of DemoCamps to highlight the June release train, so we are now getting ready for the Indigo DemoCamps. Organizing a DemoCamp is really simple: 1) Find a location that can...

Eclipse has a large community of developers working in all types of industries, using different languages and creating different types of applications and software. Once a year we try to get a snapshot of what these developers are doing and using with Eclipse. These snapshots allow us to understand the...

I thought Gunnar Hellekson’s post on the recent RFP from the US Veteran’s Administration (VA) to open source their VistA electronic healthcare record (EHR) system was a great overview of the challenges facing massive government agencies as they attempt to adopt an open source approach to their mission. I definitely...