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The Google Summer of Code 2012 students have been announced, and I’m very happy to report that Google selected twelve exceptional student project proposals for the Eclipse Community. The Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project picked up two student projects: Future enhancements for Salvo Newsreader, and OSGi Remote Services Testing framework...

The Eclipse Foundation has evolved a pretty impressive application lifecycle management story. Based on what I’ve observed over the years, I believe that it’s completely reasonable to say that our ALM story is one of the best in the world: the envy of hundreds of open source projects and closed...

I’ve been talking a lot about diversity lately. There are, of course, different kinds of diversity; but when I talk about diversity, I tend to mean diversity in the organizations contributing to an open source project: multiple organizations from different parts of the industry working together. Doug tweeted recently on...

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...