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EFSP: The Specification Committee Votes

Monday, January 21, 2019 - 12:40 by Wayne Beaton
One key difference between Eclipse open source software projects as defined by the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), and open source specification projects as defined by the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) is that specification projects must be aligned with exactly one specification committee. More generally, specification projects are aligned with...

How many lines of open source code are hosted at the Eclipse Foundation?

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 13:46 by Benjamin Cabé
Spoiler alert: 162 million! That’s right, as of August 1st, there are 330 active open-source projects hosted at the Eclipse Foundation and if you look across the 1120 Git repositories that this represents, you will find over 162 million physical source lines of code. But beyond this number, let’s look...

Running Eclipse IDE on Java 9

Monday, September 25, 2017 - 15:11 by Wayne Beaton
Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition; Java 9 can be used to run your Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition, and can be used to build Java 9 applications without additional configuration. Download or update today. Out...

Eclipse Foundation Open Source Project Announcements, February 10/2017

Friday, February 10, 2017 - 15:47 by Wayne Beaton
Intellectual Property Policy Changes Implementation You’ve likely heard about the introduction of a new type of intellectual property (IP) due diligence for third party content. The short version is that our Type A Due Diligence involves a license certification only and our Type B Due Diligence provides our traditional license...

Replacing Bugzilla with Tuleap

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 15:45 by Wayne Beaton
Bugzilla has served the Eclipse Community well for many years, easily scaling to serve the needs of over 500 open source projects, servicing a community of thousands of software developers generating half of a million issue reports over close to two decades (I’m taking some liberties with that last one...

On making standards organizations and open source communities work hand in hand

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 11:08 by Benjamin Cabé
Did you know that the Eclipse Foundation is home to many open source implementations of industry standards? From IETF to ISO to oneM2M or OASIS, we have many open source projects that provide industrial-grade implementations that anyone can use to evaluate a given standard, or to effectively use it in...

Great Fixes from Till Brychcy

Friday, May 13, 2016 - 14:28 by Wayne Beaton
Our third winner in the Great Fixes for Neon skills competition is Till Brychcy. Till has used the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) since 2003, and made his first contribution in 2013. In the time between the 2015 Mars release and today, Till has had 41 separate commits accepted by...