Community

One of my tasks for this quarter is to deliver a draft of an update to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) to the Eclipse Architecture Council for their review. The process that we follow is to open bugs against Community/Architecture Council (prefixed with [EDP]), discuss them, and then incorporate the...

We originally had 72 projects sign up to participate in the Eclipse Juno simultaneous release on June 27/2012. By release day, that number had dropped to 71 with the removal of EMF Query 2 (which has since been terminated). If you scrutinize the table, you may notice that there are...

The Kepler edition of the Eclipse simultaneous release goes live on June 26/2013. It’s an exciting and busy time for Eclipse project committers as they put the finishing touches on their bits, and prepare documentation for the release. The number of projects increases by one from last year’s Juno release...

Earlier today, we started a pretty bold move from one data centre to a brand-spanking new one across the city. I say bold, because we had to take ourselves completely offline while we disconnected more than thirty bits of hardware, shipped it across the city, and then reassembled it all...

I’ll admit that a really big part of me wanted to see who would notice. Last week, I relatively quietly changed how we represent project metadata by switching parts of the Eclipse projects website and the corresponding elements in the developer portal over to the new Project Management Infrastructure (PMI)...

Most of the open source projects that I’m familiar with don’t tend to take significant contributions unless they come with development resources. Taking on significant new functionality can be pretty daunting for development teams that are already stretched. But how do you on-board new developer (committers) while observing the open...

When you run a project at Eclipse, you are very likely interested in getting some indicators regarding the health of your community. And as Randall Munroe suggests, maybe these indicators will be a good way for you to extrapolate on when your project will actually rule the world Download stats...

My previous entry spoke of an open source project’s responsibility to keep their community informed. In that entry, I focused on a big part of a project’s outbound communcation: the project website. Communication, though, extends beyond outward communication. A successful project needs to be connected to the community and that...

I receive a lot of email from the community. Much of it is from frustrated users who are trying to make something work. Here’s a recent example: The problem was that I didn’t realise that the [project] comes ON TOP of Eclipse…I thought that the [project] was something separate and...

If you follow me on Twitter ( @waynebeaton), then you may have noticed that I’ve been doing a reasonably good impression of the Grim Reaper. A lot of Eclipse projects have been terminated over the last couple of weeks. There’s more to come. Termination of projects is a pretty natural...