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Most definitions of success for an open source project includes widespread adoption: while the value of the satisfaction you get from writing a great bit of code shouldn’t be undervalued, it’s a great deal more satisfying when something you’ve built gets used by hundreds, thousands, or millions of people. A...

Eclipse projects are required to maintain a log of intellectual property (IP) contributions (an IP Log). This log keeps track of the third-party libraries that are directly referenced and/or distributed by the project, IP contributions made to the project by non-committers, the list of committers, and more. Fortunately, the IP...

Google Summer of Code 2011 is in full swing. Well, it’s almost in full swing: the accepted student proposals were announced today. Many of the students are still wrapping up their winter term exams, so the real fun can’t begin just yet. Today, we enter what Google refers to as...

Last week, I unveiled a new Eclipse Projects Landing page. So far, the feedback I’ve received has been almost entirely positive. Frankly, I figured I’d get beat up over it being “too busy” or something, but I’ve received none of that. The only not-entirely-positive (though not strictly negative) feedback I...

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’m at it again. I’ve made myself the project lead for yet another project and have nominated myself as a committer. This time, my target is Dash (you may recall that my last step toward world domination involved the Dashboard subproject). Slowly… bit by bit… I am taking over… The...

As many of you are already aware, we started a new Friends of Eclipse Disbursements programme this year through which we are making funds gathered through “ Friends of Eclipse” available to the community. Chris blogged about this in January. To get access to these funds, you need to open...

Over the past six months or so, I’ve monitored conversations concerning the migration of project code from CVS to Git in the dev-lists of several projects. Most developers, it seems, understand the value proposition of migrating, despite their concerns that with migration comes a whole lot of new learnin’ as...

Greetings Eclipse committers (especially those of you who are working on projects in the Indigo release train). Here are some important dates. We will be assembling the annual road map at the end of January. As part of this, we need the project plans for those projects that are participating...

Tonight, I did what I do every night: try to take over the world. The Eclipse Dashboard project has been stagnant for a while with no project lead or active committers, so–per the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), Section 4.6–I decided that the existing project leadership was dysfunctional and replaced it...