Christopher Guindon's blog

    Navigating the Shift From Drupal 7 to Drupal 9/10 at the Eclipse Foundation

    Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 10:30 by Christopher Guindon
    We’re currently in the middle of a substantial transition as we are migrating mission-critical websites from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, with our sights set on Drupal 10. This shift has been motivated by several factors, including the announcement of Drupal 7 end-of-life which is now scheduled for January 5...

    Help Us Test the New Version of the Eclipse Marketplace Website

    Monday, August 21, 2023 - 11:20 by Christopher Guindon
    The Eclipse Marketplace, your platform for discovering and installing Eclipse IDE extensions, is taking a big step forward. With Drupal 7 approaching its end-of-life in January 2025, we must move towards a more supported and robust version of Drupal. As we prepare to go live with this new version, we’re...

    Migrating to Google Analytics 4: Recommendations for Eclipse Project Websites

    Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - 14:20 by Christopher Guindon
    As part of our commitment to providing support to our community, we would like to take a moment to share some recommendations regarding the use of Google Analytics (GA) for Eclipse project websites. As you may be aware, Google Analytics 4 is being rolled out as a replacement for Universal...

    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...

    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...

    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 . Yes, you got that right, the end result was -77,116 lines of code because...

    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...