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Originally posted on January 27, 2020 The Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP) says nothing about how teams should organise. The EDP defines a committer role: committers are those developers who have the ability to make decisions for the project (e.g., push commits to project Git repositories and configure build servers)...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and sixty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I’m back in business after a refreshing vacation! First up is JavaLand next week. Not only will I participate in interviews, panels, and a Jakarta EE talk. I will also staff the Jakarta EE booth in the exhibition area...

Answering even basic questions about software supply chain security has been surprisingly hard. For instance, how widespread are the different practices associated with software supply chain security? And do software professionals view these practices as useful or not? Easy or hard? To help answer these and related questions, Chainguard, the...

It’s that time of year again when we ask you to take a moment to participate in the annual Jakarta EE Developer Survey.

Welcome to issue number one hundred and sixty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is the second vacation edition of Hashtag Jakarta EE and the last for this time as I will be back in full force at the end of next week. The monthly Jakarta EE Platform Architecture call was held...

In my previous two blog posts I discussed concerns with the European Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”) which we believe will harm both the open source community and the innovation economy in Europe. But the CRA needs to be understood as part of a larger legislative framework. In this post we...

The Eclipse Cloud DevTools contributor award for this month goes to Rodrigo Pinto of Ericsson for his significant contributions in Trace Compass Cloud and the Eclipse Cloud DevTools Ecosystem.

Welcome to issue number one hundred and sixty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! After a fairly busy start to 2023 with regard to conferences and travel, I am now taking some take off for vacation. And what better thing to do on your vacation than travel some more? Since I have switched...

Thanks to financial support from the OpenSSF’s Alpha-Omega project, the Eclipse Foundation is glad to have made significant improvements in the last couple of months. Two Factor Authentication Eclipse Tycho, Eclipse m2e, and Eclipse RAP have all enforced 2FA for all their committers on GitHub: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/2701 https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/2702 https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/2611 Meanwhile, we’ve...

Theia recap for January and Februaru 2023: Theia whitepaper, Open-vsx.org sustainability, Theia, Sirius, GLSP, and January and February Contributor Awards