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There are three reviews wrapping up on February 29/2012. First up, is the Orion project with their 0.4 Release Review. Orion’s objective is to create a browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run...

I loaded the PHP Development Tools into my fresh installation of Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers Juno M5 this morning. As I was waiting for the contents of the Juno software repository to load, what I saw in the status bar made me giggle: Maybe it’s just me. But...

Imagine that you want to contribute to an open source project. You visit the project to browse the information provided by the project team and make your way to the downloads page. There, you discover that the downloads are hosted at a separate site owned and maintained by one of...

Every couple of days, I get an email from somebody looking for a price quote for Eclipse. Generally, the sender is a software reseller acting on behalf of a client. Sometimes they ask to partner with us, sometimes they just want a simple price quote. In all cases, I answer...

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines–in its section on principles–three open source rules of engagement: Openness, Transparency, and Meritocracy: Open – Eclipse is open to all; Eclipse provides the same opportunity to all. Everyone participates with the same rules; there are no rules to exclude any potential contributors which include...

I ran a query against Dash to get some sense for project activity over the past couple of years. The graph below shows a comparison of how many active projects we have at Eclipse, compared against the total number of projects. For the purposes of this graph, I have defined...

Kudos to organizer Andrew Overholt for pulling off a great Eclipse Demo Camp in Toronto–hosted in Red Hat‘s beautiful (and very clean) new digs on Eglinton Avenue–last night. Andrew Robinson from Red Hat started things off with a demonstration of some Eclipse-based tools used to drive Koji, the software that...

Every time I post a new project proposal, I receive a handful of emails from people in the community asking to be added to the committer list on the proposal. But it doesn’t work that way: it’s really not up to me. For new projects, we have to cheat a...

You may have noticed that Git is a pretty big deal at Eclipse. We’ve come a long way since the topic was first broached at EclipseCon 2006. As of today, we have 61 projects at Eclipse with Git repositories. Of our 270 projects, 197 have source code repositories, which means...

A few months ago, I set about updating the look of the project summary pages that we automatically generate for projects. The code in the current project summary pages is, frankly, pretty brittle and I used the opportunity to do a little refactoring and add a little structure. I’m pretty...