Project Management

Git Contribution Activity Charts for Eclipse Projects

18 February 2020

This post is brought to you today by the Eclipse EGit Project. Eclipse EGit is the Eclipse open source project...

11 September 2018

The Eclipse Architecture Council is in the process of making a change to how the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines...

8 February 2018

In the world of open source, Committers are ones who hold they keys. Committers decide what code goes into the...

26 January 2018

The term Intellectual Property (IP) refers to any sort of creative work, be it literature, art, or software. In the...

2 August 2017

For many open source organisations, open means the same thing as transparent: open as in open book. At the Eclipse...

30 June 2016

As part of the project creation process, the Eclipse Foundation assumes ownership of the project’s name. As a legal entity...

19 February 2016

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) regards a release as a pretty significant event. A release is similar to what other...

10 August 2015

For a very long time, I’ve wanted to completely rewrite our documentation for projects and committers. I finally gave it...

30 June 2015

Every couple of years, I work with the Eclipse Architecture Council to revise the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). The EDP...

29 April 2014

Last week we added a new feature to the Eclipse Project Management Infrastructure: we automatically generate a bug list for...