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Accepting Committers with Code

7 February 2013

Most of the open source projects that I’m familiar with don’t tend to take significant contributions unless they come with...

14 January 2013

When you run a project at Eclipse, you are very likely interested in getting some indicators regarding the health of...

12 December 2012

My previous entry spoke of an open source project’s responsibility to keep their community informed. In that entry, I focused...

11 December 2012

I receive a lot of email from the community. Much of it is from frustrated users who are trying to...

28 November 2012

If you follow me on Twitter ( @waynebeaton), then you may have noticed that I’ve been doing a reasonably good...

23 October 2012

Eclipse Committers at EclipseCon Europe: if you see me wandering around, or sitting in a talk or at table, please...

4 October 2012

Hey Eclipse Project Leads! The retirement date for CVS is approaching fast! If you have not already done so, you...

9 August 2012

Sometimes open source projects lose steam. This is the way of things. Developers get pulled off projects. Sometimes the resulting...

20 July 2012

I spent my day today at OSCON 2012. I took the opportunity to attend talks on subjects that I don’t...

16 July 2012

I’ve proposed a session titled “ Revise the Eclipse Development Process” for EclipseCon Europe 2012: It’s time to revise the...