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Bug 283745 proposes that we build and maintain a Maven repository at eclipse.org. Now, I’m not a “Maven Guy” (only because I haven’t yet had any real need to use it), but it seems like a pretty good idea to me. We discussed this bug at today’s Architecture Council meeting...

In this installment, I bring you the fourth question (#3, zero-based) from my interview in Eclipse Magazin. 3. What is an Eclipse-project obliged to do in order to take part of the Common Release Train, e.g. the Galileo release train? – Which release processes are necessary? – What are the...

I’ve started posting excerpts from an interview I did for the latest issue of Eclipse Magazin. This magazine makes me wish that I could read German and had a reasonably long daily commute by train. But, alas, I do not. Yesterday, I posted the first two questions. Today, I’ve posted...

I thought I might publish the English version of an interview I did for the recent issue of Eclipse Magazin (with permission of the publisher, of course). The German version is a delightful bit of prose that my Mother now displays proudly. I was asked a total of nine questions...

With Bug 222105, Remy Suen has assembled an Eclipse Corner article describing how to contribute to Eclipse. An important part of contributing to an Eclipse project is actually obtaining the code for that project. Unfortunately, we currently don’t have a good story for figuring out how to generically find the...

One of the things that you can do to make your code—and by extension your project—accessible to your adopter community is to make the code as easy to find and navigate as possible. I have some thoughts about making code easy to find that I’ll share another day. Today, I’m...

Last week I started working on the New Committer Handbook as a resource to help—curiously enough—new committers get up to speed with all those things that they need to know. It’s still very much a work in progress, but it’s coming along nicely. My ultimate goal is to provide a...

I’ve started an effort to rework the Development Resources wiki page. Most of this effort is concerned with providing some additional prose around the existing content to make it easier for contributors and committers to make sense of the Eclipse Development Process and navigate the many resources available. I’ve decided...

After about 3 years of activity in the Eclipse community, and about 2 years of –not always…– regular blogging in French, I’m finally ready to join Planet Eclipse and start sharing with the community! I’m interested in many topics, thus expect posts about PDE, OSGi, Modeling (EMF, xText, …), Continuous...

The Eclipse Management Organization (EMO) does a lot of reviews. We do a review when a new project is created. We do a review when a project wants to do a release. We do a move, continuation, termination reviews and more. For each of these reviews some form of documentation...