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The Eclipse Development Process doesn’t make any specific requirements on what projects are supposed to distribute. Projects are required to operate in an open and transparent manner, so I guess that we could say that project are required to distribute their source code. And they do distribute source code via...

A few months ago, I set about updating the look of the project summary pages that we automatically generate for projects. The code in the current project summary pages is, frankly, pretty brittle and I used the opportunity to do a little refactoring and add a little structure. I’m pretty...

I made a mistake in my post yesterday. All Eclipse folks in the Greater Ottawa region are invited to join us at the Eclipse Foundation offices at 4pm today to celebrate the Indigo release. That’s an hour later than I suggested yesterday. Sorry about the confusion.

Hey Ottawa-area committers: drop by the Eclipse Foundation offices for a little Indigo-release inspired socializin’ on Thursday afternoon from 3-5pm. We’ll have beer…

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...