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The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines “incubation” as a phase that projects go through on their way to maturity. New projects start in incubation to allow the project’s committers time to familiarize themselves with the state of being an Eclipse project, give them time to start developing a following in...

These are heady times in Eclipse project-land. I feel busier than a… well, I’m really, really busy. We have creation reviews pending for the Modeling Team Framework and Object Teams proposals. Object Teams is an already-established, mature project that’s moving to Eclipse. The logistics of the move are interesting enough...

I made a mention to Mike a couple of weeks back that I wanted to make a few changes to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). He seemed to think that evolving our process was a grand idea and reminded me that changes to the development process require approval from the...

It seems natural to me that the EGit project is doing their developing using Git itself. With this in mind, the EGit project has created and is managing their own Git instance on one of our vservers at egit.eclipse.org. With this server, the EGit project is helping us at the...

Having a up-to-date (and correct) IP Log is important for projects and we’re trying to provide as much help as we can to make sure that they’re in order. I’ve been working with a couple of projects to help them get their IP Logs in order. In the process, I’ve...

One of the things that I quite like about my new job at the Eclipse Foundation is the feeling that I can make a difference in the lives of committers, adopters, users, and the broader community. Actually… check that. It’s not me that’s making the difference. Individuals and project teams...

The existing Automatic IP Log Tool and the new EMF-based one that I’m unveiling next week at Eclipse Summit Europe both make use of the iplog flag in Eclipse Bugzilla. After spending some quality time with the code that scours the various Eclipse Foundation databases to find contributions to a...

Openness and transparency are two of the more important principles at Eclipse and outward communication is an important part of both. It is through outward communication that we let the community know what’s going on. I recently sent out an email, for example, declaring to the community that the Doc2Model...

Remy Suen’s “ How to Fix a Bug in Eclipse” article is now available on eclipse.org/resources. In this article, Remy discusses various tips and techniques for getting involved with an Eclipse project and providing a patch. I discussed this article a few posts back. In that post, I discussed some...

I am encouraged by the number of Eclipse project plans that have been updated over the last few weeks. I’m very positive that we will have most of them set in time for the approaching a September 30 deadline. I have spoken with about a dozen project leads directly to...