Announcements

This is a pretty big week for reviews. According to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), Eclipse open source projects are required to engage in reviews at key points in their lifecycle. This starts with the creation review, but most reviews are concerned with releases. Every major or minor release is...

Hey Eclipse Project Leads! The retirement date for CVS is approaching fast! If you have not already done so, you need to initiate plans to migrate your project repositories (both source code and website) to Git. All projects currently using CVS must migrate to Git before the deadline. All CVS...

Hey Ottawa-area committers: drop by the Eclipse Foundation offices for a little Indigo-release inspired socializin’ on Thursday afternoon from 3-5pm. We’ll have beer…

The first round of Eclipse Indigo Reviews is complete, with all reviews receiving a passing grade. That means that we have forty projects down, and twenty-two to go (total of sixty-two). The remaining projects reviews–listed below–will wrap up our Indigo Review activity. Note that three projects– EGit, JGit, and WindowBuilder–are...

I decided to split the project reviews for the Indigo release into two separate review periods. The first review, run from June 2-8/2011 is complete and all reviews have been declared successful. The following release reviews have been declared successful. Data Tools 1.9 Release Review AMP 0.9.0 Release Review EMF...

We have three reviews are scheduled for the week of April 20-27/2011. You can provide feedback on these reviews on the channels indicated in the review documents, or on the eclipse.proposals forum. As is their tradition, the EGit and JGit projects have combined their respective 0.12.0 releases into a convenient...

I, for one, welcome our new PMC overlords. I am very pleased to announce a change in the Technology Project Management Committee (PMC). My friend, Gunnar Wagenknecht–a well known figure in the Eclipse community–has relieved me of my duties as the Technology PMC Lead (I will stay on as a...