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I am pleased to announce that Andrew Ross has joined the staff of the Eclipse Foundation. Andrew will be working with myself and Ralph in the membership and ecosystem development area. I have known Andrew for a number of years. He is the founder of FOSSLC, an open source community...

Project #4 in the New Indigo Project series is the Eclipse RTP project. Holger Staudacher, the RTP project leader, has kindly answered my questions about the project. 1. What does your project provide to an Eclipse user? The RTP Project provides packages that consists of EclipseRT Technology only. They make...

One of the bigger things that I’ve been working on this year is the introduction of a formal Security Policy for Eclipse projects. Due to the nature of how work actually gets done around here, this has been a particularly interesting challenge. The security policy cannot, for example, make any...

The third new project to join the Indigo release train is Eclipse Scout. Mattias Zimmermann, project leader of Scout, continues my series of interviews with the new project leaders. 1. What does your project provide to an Eclipse user? Scout is a mature and open framework for modern, service oriented...

If you are running Chrome, or Firefox with the GreaseMonkey plug-in, then you may want to install this very simple extension that will detect when an Eclipse bug is mentioned in a commit message displayed in the git.eclipse.org web frontend. You will end up with clickable links for every “bug...

The first round of Eclipse Indigo Reviews is complete, with all reviews receiving a passing grade. That means that we have forty projects down, and twenty-two to go (total of sixty-two). The remaining projects reviews–listed below–will wrap up our Indigo Review activity. Note that three projects– EGit, JGit, and WindowBuilder–are...

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...