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 to Trace Compass Cloud and the Eclipse Cloud DevTools Ecosystem. He is a committer on Trace Compass’s UI components based on Eclipse Theia. To hear him, check out his talk at...
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...
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...
Welcome to the first Cloud DevTools Digest of 2023. This first edition covers activities from both January and February. Help Us Sustain the Open VSX Registry In February, I published an article on our need to evolve how we fund and govern our Open VSX Registry deployment. If you have...
Advanced shell prompts, such as those provided by theme engines like oh-my-zsh and oh-my-posh, have become increasingly popular among software developers due to their convenience, versatility, and customizability. However, the use of plugins that are executed outside of any sandbox and have full access to the developer shell environment, presents...
As part of our commitment to providing support to our community, we would like to take a moment to share some recommendations regarding the use of Google Analytics (GA) for Eclipse project websites. As you may be aware, Google Analytics 4 is being rolled out as a replacement for Universal...
Welcome to issue number one hundred and sixty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am writing this post while traveling home from ConFoo 2023. You can read all about it here. While I have been traveling, the work with Jakarta EE 11 goes on. The platform calls happen every Tuesday at...
My third time speaking at ConFoo was as pleasant as the previous two occasions. The three-day conference is packed with great content from a superb speaker lineup. The venue is perfectly scaled for the 720 attendees. And the food…OMG… the three-course lunches remind you that the conference is in Montreal...
In my previous blog post on the European Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”), I touched on a topic which I feel warrants additional discussion. Specifically: Fundamentally, the core of the proposed legislation is to extend the CE Mark regime to all products with digital elements sold in Europe. Our assumption based...