Welcome to the seventy-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In the Jakarta EE Platform call this week, we decided to ask the specification projects for feedback on whether October 15, 2021 is an achievable date for having their specifications ready for release. So far, the feedback has been positive. It...
Originally posted on October 26/2017. This post is based on a talk that Gunnar Wagenknecht and I delivered at the Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 and Devoxx US 2017. This content was published in the All Eyes on Open Source issue of JAX Magazine. Running an open source project is...
We’ve been fielding a number of questions lately about the intersection of our spec process and patents. A couple of these community discussions have gone off in directions that are off target, factually incorrect, or both. Therefore, the purpose of this short FAQ is to explain the patent license options...
On Tuesday, the Eclipse ioFog project team announced the release of Eclipse ioFog 2.0, and I invite everyone to join me in congratulating them and the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group for the achievement. Thanks to the community’s efforts, the release delivers new EdgeOps functionality that makes it faster and...
We’re excited to introduce you to the Entrepreneurial Open Source Podcast! This show aims to uncover valuable practical insights about building business through open source participation and commercial innovation. By speaking to people who are giving back to open source communities while running successful businesses, we hope to inform, engage...
The Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP) describes a release as anything that is distributed for adoption outside of the committers of a project (effectively, if you stamp something with a version number and tell the general audience to download it, it’s a release). Appropriately labeled nightly, integration, and milestone builds...
Theia Today The Eclipse Theia project was born just 4 years ago. Kudos and thanks to all the organizations that have supported and built the project into the success that it is today. In addition to these original contributors, there continues to be significant growth in the number of companies...
Welcome to the seventy-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Let’s look at Jakarta EE 10! By filtering on the EE10 label in our GitHub issue tracker, you will find the list of topics currently under discussion. I would like to highlight a couple of the issues. Jakarta EE 10 Direction...
Scientific progress goes “boink”? – Hobbes The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) provides a framework and governance model for developers engaged in the process of developing specifications. Specification: A specification is a collection of related artifacts. The EFSP defines a specification as a “collection of Application Programming Interface (API) definitions...
The Eclipse Foundation community awards are back for 2021! The Eclipse Foundation has a vibrant community of many dedicated individuals, who deserve to be recognized for their contributions. To recognize our community members, we will be presenting awards for Top Committer, Top Newcomer Evangelist, Top Contributor, and Lifetime Achievement at...