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Next up in my series of projects new to the release train is PDT. PDT isn’t really a new project but this is the first time it has joined the release train. They have also created a new PHP package that is currently the second most popular RC4 package on...

This year we have 10 new projects joining the Galileo release train. I thought it might be interesting to highlight some of these new projects in a quick Q&A with the project leaders. The first project is XText, a project in the Eclipse Modeling project. Sven Efftinge is the project...

I have been making my way through the results of the Great Galileo Release Review of 2009. It’s a slow-going, fairly mechanical process that eats your brain. The process has given me (if this is possible) even more respect for Anne who usually takes care of this sort of thing...

A key finding in the recent Eclipse Community Survey was the significant increase of developers using Eclipse in Linux desktops; in participate Ubuntu and Debian. However, the irony of this good news story is that the version of Eclipse on the Debian and Ubuntu distro is Eclipse 3.2, almost 3...

On June 24th, we have several project review scheduled. First, we have a creation review for the Pave project. We have a continuation review for the Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) project, a graduation/release review for the Jetty Project, and a release review for the eRCP project. Currently, in Eclipse, there...

I have scheduled a supplementary review for two projects that we missed on June 10th. The PHP Development Tools (PDT) and EMFT Mint projects will hold release reviews on June 17th, 2009 at 1500 UTC. When I say “hold release reviews”, I really mean that in the time leading up...

Eclipse RCP continues to be used for some very interesting applications. Yesterday I came across two organizations that were building electronic medical record (EMR) systems on top of RCP. 1) Elexis is an open source project in Switzerland that provides An Eclipse RCP program for all aspects of a medical...

The intent of this project is to extend the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to embedded devices. eRCP is largely a set of components which are subsets of RCP components. It basically enables the same application model used on desktop machines to be used on devices. New features in this...

The Call for Papers for Eclipse Summit Europe is now open. This year the program committee is organized in 5 categories: Runtime, IDE, Embedded, Modeling, and Other/New & Noteworthy. Deadline for submission is August 18, 2009. However, the smart presenter will get their proposals in early. btw, ESE is once...

Today we held the big review call for projects included in the Galileo release. One of the interesting things that came out in the call is that the number of project reviews appears at odds with the number of projects listed in the Projects section on the Galileo Simultaneous Release...