Christopher Guindon's blog

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...

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...

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...

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! 1. Eclipse Membership First off, it...

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...

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...

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...

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. The goal of this new GitHub App is to make sure that every contributor is...

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). The Eclipse Foundation Hosted Services Privacy and Acceptable Usage Policy will provide guidance to folks who operate a virtual server or a website...