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“Is something wrong?”, she said Well of course there is, “you’re still alive,” she said Oh, and do I deserve to be? Is that the question? And if so, if so, who answers, who answers? – Pearl Jam, Alive I take criticisms that the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) is “too...

I’m at Google IO this week. The big highlight for me today was the relatively short set played by Jane’s Addiction during the after hours party. Truth-be-told, I am also pretty stoked about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet that was given out today. I’m looking forward to seeing if...

At Eclipse, we talk a lot about community. Developing a community is an important part of being an open source project. It is from a community of users, adopters, and contributors that a project draws strength and longevity. Without a community, an open source project is just a bunch of...

This is the last week to complete the Eclipse Community Survey. The deadline for participation is May 13, 2011. Please take the time to complete the survey and tell us what you are doing with Eclipse. As an added incentive, to thank those that participate, we will randomly select 5...

Yesterday Oracle announced they have proposed to make Hudson an Eclipse project. Given the past history of the Hudson/Jenkins controversy, this was pretty big news. There has been a fair bit of press coverage and reaction from the community. I’d recommend reading Mik Kersten’s blog post about Tasktop’s participation in...

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...