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...
Today is a bit of a milestone for me, as it is exactly five years since I assumed the role of Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. I had an inkling that this was going to be a different kind of role when a few days before I even started...
Attention all Mac owners! We need your help to test the now-complete Cocoa port of SWT. The SWT team has been working hard on the SWT Cocoa port and they’ve marked the plan item as completed. Current testing indicates that it’s looking very good, but we need more help. We...