Community

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...

Eclipse Committers at EclipseCon Europe: if you see me wandering around, or sitting in a talk or at table, please come and introduce yourself. I’d like to meet you. Earlier tonight, I tweeted an observation: The EGit project doesn’t use its name in UI contributions. This helps the project feel...

Hey Eclipse Project Leads! The retirement date for CVS is approaching fast! If you have not already done so, you need to initiate plans to migrate your project repositories (both source code and website) to Git. All projects currently using CVS must migrate to Git before the deadline. All CVS...

Sometimes open source projects lose steam. This is the way of things. Developers get pulled off projects. Sometimes the resulting gaps get filled naturally. Diversity in a project is one way of making sure that gaps fill naturally: if the developers from one organization lose interest, then developers from an...

I spent my day today at OSCON 2012. I took the opportunity to attend talks on subjects that I don’t normally get to spent a lot of time with. The quality varied (I was shocked–shocked, I tell you–to learn that mining data out of arbitrarily-formatted HTML is “hard”). I spent...

I’ve proposed a session titled “ Revise the Eclipse Development Process” for EclipseCon Europe 2012: It’s time to revise the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). In this interactive session, we’ll discuss how we can revise and modernize the EDP. This is intended to be the continuation of an ongoing discussion that...

Seventy-two (72) projects signed up to participate in the Juno Simultaneous Release. Some of these projects include one or more subprojects with their participation. Effectively, this means that some subprojects have joined their parents in the release (joint IP Log and release review). In many cases, the related projects share...

The term “open and transparent” rolls off your tongue. While somewhat more cumbersome to say, I tend to prefer reversing the order: “transparent and open”. I prefer this because I believe that transparent precedes open; and far more open source projects are transparent than are open. In my experience most...