Eclipse Management Organization

The global landscape of open source development is increasingly defined by the need for transparency, trust, and a rigorous approach...

Project leads have the ability to retire committers: this is a power that must be used responsibly. The most common...

With the exception of channels created to discuss security issues while they are in quarantine (and closed channels reserved for...

By Wayne Beaton Becoming an Eclipse open source project is a process, not an event: it may take your new...

During the session, we spoke about how the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) may impact our committer community and what this...

In this session, we delivered an early version of a presentation that we building to include in our Committer Training...

By Wayne Beaton and Gunnar Wagenknecht Running an open source project is easy. All you have to do is make...

It is completely reasonable/normal for a contributor to offer to contribute an entire Git repository to an Eclipse open source...

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

By Wayne Beaton The Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP) clearly defines the roles of contributors, committers, and project leads. It...

By Wayne Beaton Every once in a while, we get a request to make somebody a committer on one of...

In this month’s session, we spoke briefly about roles in the Eclipse Foundation Development Process that are formally defined (contributors...