Blog Posts

Over the past six months or so, I’ve monitored conversations concerning the migration of project code from CVS to Git in the dev-lists of several projects. Most developers, it seems, understand the value proposition of migrating, despite their concerns that with migration comes a whole lot of new learnin’ as...

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, the nominations are in, and the “campaign” phase of our 2011 Board of Director elections in now in full swing. I have to say that I am particularly impressed with the quality of the candidates this year. There are a lot of well-known and...

Today, Nuxeo announced they would like to start a new open source project at the Eclipse Foundation, based on their existing Nuxeo Core technology. We always like getting new and interesting project proposals but I think this one is important for two reasons: 1) Foundation for innovation. As Matt Aslett...

I am sad to announce that this will be Lynn Gayowsk’s last week with the Eclipse Foundation. Lynn has decided to accept a new position with Klocwork, a software company here in Ottawa. As many of you know, Lynn has been a fantastic part of the Eclipse Foundation and the...

Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC) is becoming a popular way to install new plugins into Eclipse. There are 265 solutions available from MPC, so a great selection is developing. I recently blogged the top 10 solutions on Eclipse Marketplace but I thought it would be interesting to discover what are the...

Lots of companies build great products based on Eclipse. This year at EclipseCon, we want to showcase some of new Eclipse-based products that were released in 2010. The Hot New Product Showcase will occur Wednesday night of EclipseCon. EclipseCon attendees will have a chance to see these new products in...

On Friday, Mark Reinhold, mentioned that I have recently spent some time helping to help flesh out a draft governance model for the OpenJDK community. As John Duimovich described it, our goal is for OpenJDK to be “…an open, transparent, and meritocratic project that can be run in a lightweight...

Tomorrow, January 28, is the last day for Eclipse Community Award Nominations. Please remember to take the time to recognize an individual, project or project you think has made a difference in the Eclipse community. We already have some great nominees but I know there are others that deserve the...

Greetings Eclipse committers (especially those of you who are working on projects in the Indigo release train). Here are some important dates. We will be assembling the annual road map at the end of January. As part of this, we need the project plans for those projects that are participating...

For the cycling enthusiast in the Eclipse community, I introduce the one-of-a-kind Eclipse cycling jersey. Imagine how much faster you will go in this sleek new jersey. Imagine the conversation starters you will have explaining the Eclipse project TLAs to your fellow peleton members. Imagine the looks you will get...