Christopher Guindon's blog

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...

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...

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...

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...