Blog Posts

    Subversive or Subclipse?

    by Wayne Beaton

    Jesper was curious about Subclipse use captured by the Usage Data Collector, so I tweaked my queries to stop obfuscating the Subclipse bundles. The results for Subclipse and Subversive use by 465 users over the past 14 days are shown here. First, the commands: org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.commit (invoked 805 times) org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.update (invoked...

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    Election Results

    by Mike Milinkovich

    We announced the results of the 2008 board elections earlier today. The turnout this year was a modest improvement over last year. There were 148 committer votes cast, and 29 Add-In Provider votes. For 2008 there were 5 spots for each class of elected representative. This means that the Add-In...

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    Usage Data Collector Usage

    by Wayne Beaton

    Over the past 14 days, 453 (526 in total) of you have consented to upload your usage data to the Eclipse Foundation server. There hasn’t been a lot of change in the top five commands: org.eclipse.ui.file.save 87098 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordNext 71274 org.eclipse.ui.edit.delete 66449 org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste 57309 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordPrevious 51138 Perspective use has some interesting...

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    EclipseCon Preparations

    by Anonymous

    Things are looking great for next week at EclipseCon. Most of my time has been focused on the press outreach but this year I am also moderator two panels. On the press side, we have finished the pre-briefs of the editors and I look forward to seeing some great stories...

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    Ask Me About…

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ll be arriving at EclipseCon on Sunday and will be there all week. While I’m there, I’d like to talk to you. Yes you. And you. You also. To make it as easy as possible, here are some topics we can discuss: The Eclipse Examples Project (which successfully passed its...

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    Microsoft Announcements at EclipseCon

    by Anonymous

    Sam Ramji from MS is a keynote speaker at EclipseCon. Today at the MS MIX conference he let slip that MS was going to be making some announcements at EclipseCon about working with Eclipse. Microsoft seems to be making some visible moves about working with the open source community. This...

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    Eclipse Showcase: We need more of these

    by Anonymous

    David Kyle from Kelman Technologies has posted on Eclipse Zone a great case study about the work he is doing with Eclipse RCP to solve some challenging problems in the oil and gas industry. It is well worth the read. I wished more people would showcase their Eclipse work. This...

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    Usage Data Collection Status

    by Wayne Beaton

    The Usage Data Collector ( UDC) is now part of the milestone 5 builds of the Ganymede packages produced by the Eclipse Packaging Project ( EPP). It seems that about 10% of those who have downloaded Ganymede M5 packages are participating in our usage data gathering exercise (1.2 million usage...

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    2 nouveaux étages à la tour de Babel

    by Benjamin Cabé

    Le projet Babel avance à grands pas ! Avant-hier, gros boost du côté du nombre de traductions disponibles, puisque Denis Roy a fait tourner un script qui a permis de réimporter l’ensemble des traductions déjà effectuées par IBM pour la version 3.2 d’Eclipse. Au total, cela fait plus de 20.000...

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