Christopher Guindon's blog

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 we took...

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 have...

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...

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. Since then, we migrated our Hugo theme, Eclipsepedia, Eclipse Community Forums and a...

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: Go to Help > Install New Software...