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Project #5 in my series of new projects on the Indigo release train is Jubula. Achim Lorke, the project leader from Jubula kindly answered my four questions. 1. What does your project provide to an Eclipse user? Jubula provides automated functional GUI testing for Java and HTML applications. It is...

You may recall from last year’s post, Helios by the Numbers, that our official project count was really just one of a whole bunch of different numbers. I’m pleased to say that this year we really tightened this up; as a result, I only have two numbers. Officially, we have...

The Indigo release train is set to arrive in less than 1 week on June 22. As a reminder, Friends of Eclipse get access to the release at the same time as our mirrors are syncing. This means Friends can download the release before things get too crazy for the...

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...