Blog Posts

Eclipse is turning 10 this November and we want to have a BIG party. EclipseCon Europe will kick-off for the celebration but we want to have birthday parties around the world. In fact, I would like to see at least 50 parties in different countries around the world. 10 years...

The Contribution Questionnaire (CQ) is the entry point into the Eclipse intellectual property (IP) due diligence process (the full process is defined in the Due Diligence Process poster). The term CQ has expanded from it’s original meaning. Originally, CQs were literally a questionnaire filled out by a project committer to...

Last week, I vetoed four committer elections for two Technology projects. Two weeks ago, I counselled another PMC about their approval of an election that I would also have vetoed. I hate saying no to people. Committers are elected to Eclipse projects after establishing merit with the project. The measure...

I continually think about ways that we can improve the Eclipse Development Process and the various bits of infrastructure and process that exist to support it. The whole review process has always been troubling for me because it’s really turned into a bit of a rubber stamp process. Early on...

We are putting together plans for the Eclipse 10th Birthday. One thing we would like to have is a nice graphic that we can use on our web site and maybe on t-shirts. If you are graphically inclined and have some ideas, I have started a CrowdSpring project to solicit...

The last few weeks have seen two great articles discussing the openness and transparency of the Eclipse community. The two reports were completely independent of one another, but both highly valued the open and transparent data we make available about our projects, and the vendor-neutral governance model that helps sustain...

During a meeting yesterday, I was forced to think about the scene (not entirely safe for work) in Monty Python’s Life of Brian when the protagonist is introduced to the People’s Front of Judea. In this meeting we were discussing the creation of a new open source foundation. What made...

Today we hit our goal of 500 Friends of Indigo. Thank you to everyone that participated. Your contribution and support of the Eclipse community is definitely appreciated. Of course you can still join our Friends of Eclipse at anytime of the year. And who was #500, that honour goes to...

In November, the Eclipse community will be celebrating 10 years since Eclipse was made available for download. At LOT has happened during those 10 years so we want to celebrate. The big party will be at EclipseCon Europe but we want to do more. Right now I am looking for...

I recently blogged about some a new project summary page design that I’ve been tinkering with. Here’s what it looks like: The page is entirely data-driven from project metadata. The title comes from the projectname metadata entry; if this entry is not specified, the value is obtained from the projects...