Blog Posts

I am happy to announce that my team is ready to deploy a new version of our GitHub Sync Toolset on November 26, 2019 from 10:00 to 11:00 am EST. We are not expecting any disruption of service but it’s possible that some committers may lose write access to their...

Now that Jakarta EE 8 has been available for a couple of months, I want to share news about some of the great committee work that’s been happening. I also want to tell you about our latest Jakarta EE-compatible product, and make sure you have links to the recordings of...

The Eclipse IoT working group is launching a campaign to identify the adopters of Eclipse IoT open source projects. Companies — whether or not they are working group members — can be listed as adopters. Adopters are organizations that voluntarily show their support for the Eclipse IoT projects they have...

I’ll start this discussion with some background… Under the original Eclipse Foundation Intellectual Property (IP) Policy, every bit of third party content needed to be thoroughly reviewed before it could be used by an Eclipse project. And the reviews were thorough: license scan, provenance check, scan for anomalies, … Reviews...

Sharon Corbett drafted this message that the IP Team has been posting on some of our CQs. I’d like to share it more broadly. The Eclipse Board of Directors approved changes to the Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy on October 21, 2019. The most significant change relates to how we will...

It has been a lot of talk about processes in the Jakarta and MicroProfile community lately, so I just want to remind us all about this item from the Agile Manifesto. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. https://agilemanifesto.org/ That said, some process is needed. Especially for work with specifications...

At EclipseCon Europe 2019 I attended a very interesting talk entitled " CI systems need care, too! Here's how we improved ours over the years". It was an eye opener! Here's what I gathered. New developer comes to a Company Company sells a software product built by a CI system...

While it’s true that most Eclipse projects use the Eclipse Public License, many Eclipse open source projects use alternative licenses either alone or in combination. The chart below shows the relative use of various license schemes by Eclipse open source projects: Note that we use SPDX expression. In SPDX, license...

It’s been a week since I started as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation! As you may have noticed, I am involved in almost any committee around Jakarta EE and enterprise Java in general and my new role has some implications for these engagements. I have listed...

When you look at the very impressive list of founding members for our new Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools Working Group, it’s clear that world-leading technology companies strongly believe that open source, cloud native development tools are needed. Our Eclipse Foundation developer community has also enthusiastically embraced the initiative. To...