Christopher Guindon's blog

The Open VSX Registry has become widely used infrastructure for modern developer tools. That growth reflects strong trust from the ecosystem, and it brings a shared responsibility to keep the Registry reliable, predictable, and equitable for everyone who depends on it. In a previous post, I shared an update on...

The Eclipse Foundation supports a global open source community by providing trusted platforms, services, and governance. As a vendor-neutral organisation, we operate infrastructure that enables collaboration across projects, organisations, and industries. This infrastructure supports project governance, developer tooling, and day-to-day operations across Eclipse open source projects. While much of it...

The Open VSX Registry is core infrastructure in the developer supply chain, delivering extensions developers download, install, and rely on every day. As the ecosystem grows, maintaining that trust matters more than ever. A quick note on terminology: Eclipse Open VSX is an open source project, and the Open VSX...

To make it easier for our community to maintain an active contributor status, we’re introducing a new notification service for the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA). Starting June 11, 2025, we will begin sending email reminders before a standalone ECA is set to expire. For those who need to take action...

In late March 2025, a security researcher in our community reported a security concern about a publicly accessible API endpoint containing user information on accounts.eclipse.org. After reviewing the issue, we determined this API endpoint was unnecessary and have since disabled it. We looked through our access logs for the past...

We’re excited to announce that accounts.eclipse.org will migrate from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 on January 19, 2025. This is a significant milestone in our ongoing effort to modernize the Eclipse Foundation’s web infrastructure, following the successful migration of the Project Management Infrastructure (PMI) earlier this year. This migration aligns...

As part of our migration to Drupal 10, we’ve decided to discontinue support for Gravatar on sites such as accounts.eclipse.org, projects.eclipse.org, blogs.eclipse.org, marketplace.eclipse.org, and newsroom.eclipse.org. This change enhances privacy compliance by giving users more control over their data and ensures a more consistent experience across many of our web properties...

We are pleased to announce the release of Version 1.1 of the Eclipse Foundation Hosted Services Privacy and Acceptable Usage Policy, effective December 2, 2024. This policy sets out the rules and responsibilities for Services Operators — individuals other than Eclipse Foundation staff managing services hosted or supported by the...

Today, we are announcing the deprecation of the Eclipse User Storage Service SDK (the Eclipse project) and the Eclipse User Storage Service API (hosted and maintained by the Eclipse Foundation). The Eclipse User Storage Service (USS) API was created in 2015 to enable Eclipse projects to store and retrieve user...

Microsoft announced the retirement of Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) on June 15, 2022. In alignment with this industry change and our upcoming migration to Drupal 10 and Bootstrap 5, we are formally announcing that we will cease support for IE 11 effective January 1, 2024. Our decision to extend...