EDP

I continually think about ways that we can improve the Eclipse Development Process and the various bits of infrastructure and process that exist to support it. The whole review process has always been troubling for me because it’s really turned into a bit of a rubber stamp process. Early on...

The Eclipse Development Process doesn’t make any specific requirements on what projects are supposed to distribute. Projects are required to operate in an open and transparent manner, so I guess that we could say that project are required to distribute their source code. And they do distribute source code via...

One of the bigger things that I’ve been working on this year is the introduction of a formal Security Policy for Eclipse projects. Due to the nature of how work actually gets done around here, this has been a particularly interesting challenge. The security policy cannot, for example, make any...

For the past week, most of my time has been spent neck-deep in IP Logs. Eclipse projects are required to submit their IP Log for review prior to any release. With Eclipse Indigo due to release in just under a month (June 22/2011), I’ve been bit-buried in IP Logs. Of...

I have started capturing the “Eclipse Project Model” using EMF and Ecore Tools. EMF captures the actual model and Ecore Tools provides a cool visual. I’ve only just started on it, so there’s obviously some holes. It’s worth noting that this represents a run at creating an idealized view, so...

I’ve been working on some updates to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) that we’ll roll out in August 2011. The main driver behind these changes is some planned changes in the Eclipse Bylaws. The Bylaw change that will most affect the EDP is the removal of the Requirements Council. The...

“Is something wrong?”, she said Well of course there is, “you’re still alive,” she said Oh, and do I deserve to be? Is that the question? And if so, if so, who answers, who answers? – Pearl Jam, Alive I take criticisms that the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) is “too...

Most definitions of success for an open source project includes widespread adoption: while the value of the satisfaction you get from writing a great bit of code shouldn’t be undervalued, it’s a great deal more satisfying when something you’ve built gets used by hundreds, thousands, or millions of people. A...

Greetings Eclipse committers (especially those of you who are working on projects in the Indigo release train). Here are some important dates. We will be assembling the annual road map at the end of January. As part of this, we need the project plans for those projects that are participating...

Here are some interesting numbers about Helios. At least I think they’re interesting. 39 Projects are listed on the Helios Participating Projects wiki page (many entries in this table include one or more subprojects); 54 sets of documentation were sent to the EMO for the release review (culminating in a...