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I had a bizarre experience at JavaOne yesterday. And I have witnesses. Lots of witnesses. We were approached at the Eclipse booth by a gentleman sporting a “FindBugs” t-shirt. Our conversation went something like this: The guy: Is there somebody here who works on the Eclipse project? Me: There are...

I just found this useful link which gathers ALL the Eclipse Ganymede icons, in one and easy to browse place. It also provides OpenOffice icons (needless to say they are way less cool! ). Also, for everyone looking for a way to automatically retrieve all these icons, the following script...

There’s a fundamental problem with the Automated IP Log Tool. Now, don’t get me wrong… there’s a lot of good stuff in there. And we’re going to keep on leveragin’ that good stuff as we move forward. But there’s a fundamental problem. For the uninitiated, the Automated IP Log Tool...

We have just published the results from the Eclipse community survey. The results are pretty insightful and opened my eyes to some things I didn’t know about the Eclipse community. A complete report, called the Open Source Developer Report, is available and the complete results are here. I thought it...

The Galileo Release is just four short weeks away; June 24 is the big day. Every year we put together a launch program to help promote the release, this year being no different. I thought it might be useful to summarize what we are planning. Feel free to let me...

I’ve been blogging recently about some project/committer issues that I’d like to address. I’ve created a wiki page that I intend to use as a home for incubating ideas about things that my crack staff and I can focus attention on to make things better for everybody. My plan is...

In my many years as a consultant (prior to my start here at the Eclipse Foundation), I worked with more organizations that I can reasonably count. My feeling is that I have provided a lot of value to the groups that I’ve worked with. Depressingly, though, I feel that some...

I have been remiss in updating our website with information regarding some decisions made by the Board late last year. Totally my bad. So here is some good news: Projects can license their example code using the Eclipse Distribution License (EDL) as well as the EPL. The advantage to this...

Friends of Eclipse is a special program that allows you to help the Eclipse Foundation provide services to the Eclipse community. Everyone that makes a donation of US$35 or more receives special ‘Friends’ benefits. One of these benefits is access to the ‘Friends of Eclipse’ download server. Now you might...

Today, we ran a termination/archive review for the Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) project. The current project committers just haven’t had time to dedicate to the project and so development has stalled. The docuware for the review is on the projects page (at least it is today). I’m happy to report...