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Today we hit our goal of 500 Friends of Indigo. Thank you to everyone that participated. Your contribution and support of the Eclipse community is definitely appreciated. Of course you can still join our Friends of Eclipse at anytime of the year. And who was #500, that honour goes to...

In November, the Eclipse community will be celebrating 10 years since Eclipse was made available for download. At LOT has happened during those 10 years so we want to celebrate. The big party will be at EclipseCon Europe but we want to do more. Right now I am looking for...

In the last week I am very pleased to announce CloudBees and Jaspersoft have both joined as a member of the Eclipse Foundation and both released new solutions for Eclipse developers. For some people, it might be a surprise to have these companies join the Eclipse Foundation since they are...

Project #5 in my series of new projects on the Indigo release train is Jubula. Achim Lorke, the project leader from Jubula kindly answered my four questions. 1. What does your project provide to an Eclipse user? Jubula provides automated functional GUI testing for Java and HTML applications. It is...

The Indigo release train is set to arrive in less than 1 week on June 22. As a reminder, Friends of Eclipse get access to the release at the same time as our mirrors are syncing. This means Friends can download the release before things get too crazy for the...

I am pleased to announce that Andrew Ross has joined the staff of the Eclipse Foundation. Andrew will be working with myself and Ralph in the membership and ecosystem development area. I have known Andrew for a number of years. He is the founder of FOSSLC, an open source community...

Project #4 in the New Indigo Project series is the Eclipse RTP project. Holger Staudacher, the RTP project leader, has kindly answered my questions about the project. 1. What does your project provide to an Eclipse user? The RTP Project provides packages that consists of EclipseRT Technology only. They make...

The third new project to join the Indigo release train is Eclipse Scout. Mattias Zimmermann, project leader of Scout, continues my series of interviews with the new project leaders. 1. What does your project provide to an Eclipse user? Scout is a mature and open framework for modern, service oriented...

If you are running Chrome, or Firefox with the GreaseMonkey plug-in, then you may want to install this very simple extension that will detect when an Eclipse bug is mentioned in a commit message displayed in the git.eclipse.org web frontend. You will end up with clickable links for every “bug...

In my series on new projects that have joined the Indigo release train, Eric Clayberg, project leader of WindowBuidler answers the 4 questions. As a side note, I have known Eric since the days of WindowBuilder for Smalltalk. It is great to have him leading the charge of making WindowBuilder...