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Project leads have the ability to retire committers: this is a power that must be used responsibly. The most common reason to retire a committer is extended inactivity. Inactive committers can be a liability, for example: A long list of committers can give a false sense of viability (if a...

With the exception of channels created to discuss security issues while they are in quarantine (and closed channels reserved for working group committee discussions), we provide no private channels for open source projects. This means that we do not provide private mailing lists (or any other private channels) for any...

By Wayne Beaton Becoming an Eclipse open source project is a process, not an event: it may take your new open source project weeks or months to various adopt the principles, processes, and practices that the community have come to expect Eclipse open source project teams to follow and implement...

During the session, we spoke about how the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) may impact our committer community and what this could mean in practice. Notes Get Engaged with the OCCTET project

In this session, we delivered an early version of a presentation that we building to include in our Committer Training video series concerning the use of Artificial Intelligence by Eclipse Committers and Contributors. A key take-away should be that as a committer you bear a responsibility to verify that all...

By Wayne Beaton and Gunnar Wagenknecht Running an open source project is easy. All you have to do is make your source code available and you’re open source, right? Well, maybe. Ultimately, whether or not an open source project is successful depends on your definition of success. Regardless of your...

It is completely reasonable/normal for a contributor to offer to contribute an entire Git repository to an Eclipse open source project. That offer to contribute the repository along with the committer discussion and decision to accept the contribution must be recorded in some public manner (e.g., mailing list archive, GitHub...

In this session, Maria-Teresa presented a summary of our findings with 2025’s edition of the Eclipse Committer Survey. We didn’t record this session. Notes Slides (PDF)

By Wayne Beaton The Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP) clearly defines the roles of contributors, committers, and project leads. It deliberately refrains, however, from dictating internal team organisation, thereby granting project teams significant autonomy in establishing their own leadership structures and decision-making processes. As always, these practices, like all of...

By Wayne Beaton Every once in a while, we get a request to make somebody a committer on one of our open source projects. These often come from companies that are already contributing to the project, and have either hired a new developer or reassigned an existing developer to work...