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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.

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...