Eclipse Foundation

Lightening the Release Review Burden

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 11:00 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Architecture Council is in the process of making a change to how the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines the Reviews that Eclipse open source projects are required to engage in. Foremost on our minds is the nature of Release Reviews which the EDP current requires ahead of all major and minor releases (service releases are excused from the requirement).

An $8.7 Billion Shared Investment: Sizing the Economic Value of Eclipse Community Collaboration

Monday, September 10, 2018 - 17:08 by Thabang Mashologu

What is the value of the code contributed by the Eclipse community? Inspired by a 2015 Linux Foundation study of the value of open source collaboration, we estimate that the roughly 162 million total physical source lines of code in Eclipse repositories represent an $8.7 billion USD shared technology investment by our community.

How many lines of open source code are hosted at the Eclipse Foundation?

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 13:46 by Benjamin Cabé

Spoiler alert: 162 million!

Open Source for the Greater Good

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 12:15 by Thabang Mashologu

The Eclipse Foundation is joining forces with IBM and other leading organizations in the Call for Code initiative to promote the development of open source solutions to mitigate the effects of natural disasters. The Foundation is proud to support tackling one of the world’s greatest challenges through the creation of sustainable technology that helps people. We encourage the Eclipse community to contribute their considerable talents to this worthy cause!

New improvements to the Eclipse Packaging website

Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 10:30 by Christopher Guindon

In my previous blog post, we announced a new look and feel for the Eclipse Foundation website. The plan was to roll out our new design to eclipse.org first and then gradually migrate our other web properties.

We Are Open

Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 14:31 by Thabang Mashologu

Back in April, our Executive Director Mike Milinkovich blogged about a new logo and redesigned website for the Eclipse Foundation. Our new branding is meant to reflect the Foundation’s role beyond the Eclipse IDE. We are proud of our heritage and successfully launched the Eclipse Photon release recently to a global base of over 4 million active users.

Eclipse Marketplace Client, Photon Edition not opening in certain cases

Friday, June 29, 2018 - 10:30 by Christopher Guindon

The Eclipse Marketplace Client, Photon edition has a bug where it fails to open in certain cases. If nothing happens when you try to access the Eclipse Marketplace via “Help > Eclipse Marketplace”, please update the Marketplace Client plug-in by doing the following:

Jakarta EE, Eclipse MicroProfile and Cloud-Native at EclipseCon France

Thursday, June 28, 2018 - 15:59 by Tanja Obradovic

These are exciting times for the Java community! EclipseCon France (ECF) 2018, the first ECF since Oracle contributed Java EE to Eclipse Foundation, surely reflected that. The Jakarta EE brand, now firmly accepted by the community, received heightened visibility at ECF via a track dedicated to Jakarta EE and related technologies.

Take Your Code to the Next Level with Eclipse Photon

Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - 17:48 by Thabang Mashologu

The Eclipse Photon release is here and available for download!

Join over 4 million active users of the Eclipse IDE and take your coding to the next level with Eclipse Photon.

Jakarta EE Marketing and Social Media Update

Tuesday, June 26, 2018 - 13:13 by Thabang Mashologu

I recently read a great post about the often misunderstood, yet important role of marketing in open source community advocacy. To paraphrase the author, open source marketers succeed when they deliver relevant content to developers and commercial decision makers, enable communication, and highlight the achievements of community members.

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