Christopher Guindon's blog

ECA Validation Update for Gerrit

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 12:45 by Christopher Guindon

We are planning to install a new version of our Gerrit ECA validation plugin this week in an effort to reduce errors when a contribution is validated.

With this update, we are moving our validation logic to our new ECA Validation API that we created for our new Gitlab instance.

We are planning to push these changes live on Wednesday, December 9 at 16:00 GMT, though there is no planned downtime associated with this update.

Become an Eclipse Technology Adopter

Friday, December 4, 2020 - 12:50 by Christopher Guindon

Did you know that organizations — whether they are members of the Eclipse Foundation or not — can be listed as Eclipse technology adopters?

In November 2019, The Eclipse IoT working group launched a campaign to promote adopters of Eclipse IoT technologies. Since then, more than 60 organizations have shown their support to various Eclipse IoT projects.

Website Updates For Eclipse Foundation AISBL

Friday, August 28, 2020 - 09:25 by Christopher Guindon

The Eclipse Foundation recently announced its intention to transition to Europe as part of its continued global expansion.

To support this initiative, we needed to start making some important changes to our website. This week, we made available the first round of these changes!

Eclipse IoT Website Redesign

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 10:12 by Christopher Guindon

The Eclipse IoT website redesign is now live! This project was a huge undertaking for us; we added 5,245 lines of code, closed 15 issues, removed 82,361 lines of code and made 84 commits.

Modernizing our GitHub Sync Toolset

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 15:10 by Christopher Guindon

I am happy to announce that my team is ready to deploy a new version of our GitHub Sync Toolset on November 26, 2019 from 10:00 to 11:00 am EST.

We are not expecting any disruption of service but it’s possible that some committers may lose write access to their Eclipse project GitHub repositories during this 1 hour maintenance window.

Show Your Support for Open Source IoT at the Eclipse Foundation

Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 11:35 by Christopher Guindon

The Eclipse IoT working group is launching a campaign to identify the adopters of Eclipse IoT open source projects. Companies — whether or not they are working group members — can be listed as adopters.

Adopters are organizations that voluntarily show their support for the Eclipse IoT projects they have adopted (i.e. shipping commercial products based on the projects and/or using the projects for non-commercial or internal reasons).

Eclipse Foundation Contributor Validation Service

Monday, February 25, 2019 - 18:20 by Christopher Guindon

In an effort to provide a more robust solution to our Contributor Validation Service on GitHub, we created the Eclipse ECA Validation Github App that can be installed on any GitHub account, organization or repository.

Eclipse Foundation Hosted Services Privacy and Acceptable Usage Policy

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 15:30 by Christopher Guindon

The Eclipse Foundation recently made available a new policy to make sure that our projects and hosted services are compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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.

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:

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