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I decided to split the project reviews for the Indigo release into two separate review periods. The first review, run from June 2-8/2011 is complete and all reviews have been declared successful. The following release reviews have been declared successful. Data Tools 1.9 Release Review AMP 0.9.0 Release Review EMF...

In my series on new projects that have joined the Indigo release train, Eric Clayberg, project leader of WindowBuidler answers the 4 questions. As a side note, I have known Eric since the days of WindowBuilder for Smalltalk. It is great to have him leading the charge of making WindowBuilder...

We have just published the 2011 edition of our Open Source Developer Report, the results of our Eclipse Community Survey. I always enjoy going through the results and discovering new trends that are happening in the Eclipse community. Here are some trends that caught my attention in this year’s version...

I rediscovered an “IDE Hot Topic” yesterday: line numbers in the editor. For me, this rediscovery started with a Tweet: @ashwhite: To me the single thing that epitomizes the shittyness of Eclipse as an IDE is that line numbers are off by default. #fb Hopefully my kids aren’t reading this...

The Indigo release train will include 62 projects released on the June 22. Lots of great new technology is coming to a download server near you. There are a number of projects that are joining the release train for the first time. Two years ago I did a blog series...

Yesterday, Oracle announced they are proposing to move OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation. Similar to Oracle’s announcement of moving Hudson to the Eclipse Foundation, this announcement has received mixed reviews. Like the split in the Hudson and Jenkins community, there is also the LibreOffice fork of the OpenOffice community. Some...

For the past week, most of my time has been spent neck-deep in IP Logs. Eclipse projects are required to submit their IP Log for review prior to any release. With Eclipse Indigo due to release in just under a month (June 22/2011), I’ve been bit-buried in IP Logs. Of...

I have started capturing the “Eclipse Project Model” using EMF and Ecore Tools. EMF captures the actual model and Ecore Tools provides a cool visual. I’ve only just started on it, so there’s obviously some holes. It’s worth noting that this represents a run at creating an idealized view, so...

This post is a reworked version of a response that I posted on the eclipse.proposals forum. I cannot recall any project proposal garnering so much discussion and stirring as much emotion as the recent proposal to move Hudson to Eclipse. Frankly, this is the first time that anybody has ever–in...

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.