Community

Notification by email

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 11:49 by Wayne Beaton
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...

How to Fix a Bug in Eclipse

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 16:01 by Wayne Beaton
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...

Project Plans

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 14:50 by Wayne Beaton
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...

IP Log Tool Update

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 15:34 by Wayne Beaton
I’ve been working on a new version of the IP Log tool. This version leverages some pretty cool Eclipse technology. The first thing you see when you use the tool is the wizard. The wizard can populate a new IP Log with information gathered from the various Eclipse Foundation databases...

Upcoming Project Reviews

Friday, September 11, 2009 - 12:06 by Wayne Beaton
We some reviews coming up on September 16. First is a release review for Visual Editor. I think that this should come as a great relief for many in the community; I see lots of questions about this on various mailing lists and forums. Further, I tend to get at...