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On Friday, February 7 2020, Eclipse.org suffered a severe service disruption to many of its web properties when our primary authentication server and file server suffered a hardware failure. For 90 minutes, our main website, www.eclipse.org, was mostly available, as was our Bugzilla bug tracking tool, but logging in was...

This post is brought to you today by the Eclipse EGit Project. Eclipse EGit is the Eclipse open source project that provides Git integration for the Eclipse Platform. On Eclipse open source project pages (which we often refer to as the Project Management Interface or “PMI”), the “ Who’s Involved”...

Welcome to the seventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! One of the most common questions I get when talking about Jakarta EE is: “How can I help?”. Well, here is a suggestion: The post “ Help wanted: improved signature test tool” by Bill Shannon on the Jakarta EE Community mailing...

We identified a hole in our committer agreement process that excluded individuals with a certain employment status from participating in Eclipse Foundation open source specification projects operating under the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP). I’ll start by saying that you don’t need to be a committer to contribute to an...

Last Friday, Feb 7 at around 12:30pm (Ottawa time), I received a notification from Fred Gurr (part of our release engineering team) that something was going on with the infra. The multitude of colours on the Eclipse Service Status page confirmed it -- many of our services and tools were...

Welcome to the sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! On the fun side, I was made aware that my shoutout for the Hashtag series may be a little confusing as you can see in my conversation with Ronnie Zolverda. I didn’t want to use #5 to indicate number 5 since...

With the launch this week of the Sparkplug Working Group, we’re bringing together the industry leaders and technologies needed to drive development and broad adoption of the Eclipse Sparkplug specification for open, interoperable, Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions that use the MQTT protocol. MQTT is an open and lightweight publish-subscribe messaging...

With the Jan 16 announcement that we’re targeting a mid-2020 release for Jakarta EE9, the year is off to a great start for the entire Jakarta EE community. But, the Jakarta EE 9 release announcement certainly wasn’t our only achievement in the first month of 2020. Here’s a look at...

Sparkplug is an open source specification defining a protocol to improve the interoperability and scalability of IIoT solutions. In Orlando today at the ARC Advisory Group’s 24th Annual Industry Forum, the Eclipse Foundation announced the formation of the Sparkplug Working Group. The objective of the working group is to drive...

The next conference I will be attending is Devnexus in Atlanta which is organized by the Atlanta Java User Group. This year, Devnexus is extended with a JUG Leader Summit scheduled the day before the conference where there will be more than 40 Java User Groups represented. In my session...