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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...

We have just published the 2011 edition of our Open Source Developer Report, the results of our Eclipse Community Survey. I always enjoy going through the results and discovering new trends that are happening in the Eclipse community. Here are some trends that caught my attention in this year’s version...

The Indigo release train will include 62 projects released on the June 22. Lots of great new technology is coming to a download server near you. There are a number of projects that are joining the release train for the first time. Two years ago I did a blog series...

Yesterday, Oracle announced they are proposing to move OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation. Similar to Oracle’s announcement of moving Hudson to the Eclipse Foundation, this announcement has received mixed reviews. Like the split in the Hudson and Jenkins community, there is also the LibreOffice fork of the OpenOffice community. Some...

Early today we surpassed 500,000 successful install on the Eclipse Marketplace. It is a great milestone. I hope the Drag to Install support we are adding to Indigo will only accelerate the pace of installs via Marketplace.