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This week I read two articles which really got me thinking about the value of an agile and community-based development processes. The first was the fact that roughly six weeks after shipping Eclipse 3.1, Eclipse 3.2 M1 is already available. And it is not just a token release. There are...

I am back from vacation and dealing with the inevitable mound of emails. Sometimes I wonder if vacations are, in fact, worth the agony of returning to work The past few months have been fascinating in terms of watching the sudden explosion in Eclipse-focused web portals and news sources. I...

So the Million Download Challenge is officially over as of August 7th. We are currently sitting at 1,000,130

So the Eclipse 3.1 download meter is currently at 994,930. Are there 5,070 people out there who are going to download on a Saturday night? I will check it again at midnight to see which day counts as the end of the challenge. All you folks out there who pledged...

As mentioned by Ted Leung, this weekend the OSCON folks have organized the Free/Libre Open Source Software Project Summit. A big “thank you” goes to Allison Randal for all of the work to set this up. The first day was focused on intros, overviews of organization, governance and funding. It...

I just read a hilarious presentation from ApacheCon Europe entitled Why I Hate the Apache Web Server. I think that any successful project with some history will have some warts and inconsistencies. I’m sure we have our share. Anyone out there interested in creating a similar presentation for EclipseCon 2006...

I am heading out for a 2 week vacation. It looks like I won’t be hear to see the counter roll over to 1 million downloads. So when will we actually get to 1 million? Right now we are at 854,694. It seems we are getting about 20,000 per day...

There have been some discussions lately about open source software and the corporate agendas that are tied to them. A thread on Javalobby where someone accuses IBM for having an agenda to sell WSAD and Sun having an agenda for NetBeans. Also Marc Fleury, making what I find to be...

John Waters at AD Trends is working on a story for App Trends about Java tools and would like to speak with some users of the Eclipse IDE. Specifically he’s looking for: A developer who is currently using the Eclipse IDE as his/her basic Java development tool and adding plug-ins...

We would like to raise the awareness of Eclipse with Linux and Embedded Developers. Lots of people know of Eclipse as being a great platform for Java development tools. Eclipse also has a great C/C++ IDE which is being used by lots of companies as the foundation for their Linux...