Over the past year, the Eclipse Foundation has made securing the open source software supply chain a priority. By growing our security team and laying the groundwork for the Cyber Risk Initiative, we’ve made strides to improve the security posture of our open source projects. Today, we’re taking another step...
JCrete is the perfect way to end the conference season before summer. JCrete 2023 was, in my opinion, one of the better editions that I have attended so far. JCrete is an unConference. That means that there are no scheduled talks upfront. Actually, there are no talks at all, only...
Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have just arrived home from JCrete 2023, so this will be a rather short one. A write-up from JCrete will be published shortly. Here is a teaser in the form of a group picture. It’s Sunday again...
Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The weekly update on the current status of plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11 shows good progress. Seven plans have been approved, two are on ballot, eight are ready for ballot, and one straggler we’re waiting...
Directly after GOTO Amsterdam 2023 ended, I headed to the IKEA offices in Amsterdam with Geertjan and Geerit to speak at the Amsterdam JUG. We had a great walk through Amsterdam with Geertjan as our tour guide. On the way to @AmsterdamJug with @hansolo_ and local tour guide @GeertjanW #JakaraEE...
Have you found something that looks like a security issue in an Eclipse Foundation project? Here is a description of how to report them. Method 1: Project-specific Instructions First, look if the concerned project has SECURITY.md in its main repository. If it does, follow the instructions from that file. Method...
Eclipse Foundation projects share a default way to report security issues. Security researchers and all concerned users can create private issues to describe potential security issues so that projects can learn about them, study and fix them. For years, security issues have been reported using Bugzilla. Recently, related to the...
The Eclipse Cloud Developer Tools contributor award for June goes to Red Hat for initially contributing the VS Code Extension API to Theia. This allows regular VS Code extensions to run directly in Theia and any Theia-based product. As you might know, you can use VS Code extensions in Eclipse...
GOTO Amsterdam 2023 was a really great experience! It was my first time speaking at a GOTO conference. In addition to Amsterdam, the GOTO conferences are organized in Chicago, Aarhus, and Copenhagen. The venue, Beurs van Berlage is absolutely stunning. And the food is in the top tier of conference...
Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week’s update on the current status of the plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11 shows that there are now three approved plans, four on ballot, and nine ready for ballot (Snapshot from Sunday, June 25...