Mikaël Barbero's blog

A postmortem about the incident that could have affected artifacts on repo.eclipse.org What happened? On Feb 16th 2021, we received a security report about secrets in the main Jiro repository. This report was correct. On March 18th 2020, the secrets were committed inside the repository. >Photo by Amol Tyagi on...

TL;DR Infrastructure improvements and migration described in last year post is eventually happening, with some tweaks. As of today, more than 250 Eclipse projects use the build infrastructure at the Eclipse Foundation. For a year now, we’re planning how the infrastructure can be scaled and expanded to keep up with...

TL;DR Projects hosted by the Eclipse Foundation will soon benefit from a brand new enterprise-grade continuous integration (CI) infrastructure. Expected improvements are: resiliency, scalability and nimbleness. We are doing this move with tremendous support from our friends at CloudBees and RedHat with their respective products Jenkins Enterprise and OpenShift Container...

Key takeaways: Do you want to see a Chromium based SWT Browser implementation? Please donate (or reach out to me if you want to do corporate donations) and the Eclipse Foundation will make it happens via the Friends of Eclipse Enhancement Program (FEEP). Browser support in SWT has always been...

For the very first time, a Devoxx conference is happening in the USA, in San Jose, CA. It starts on March 21, 2017 and is 3 days long. Devoxx conferences are famous in Europe (organized in Belgium, France, UK, Poland, and Morocco) for their high quality talks from amazing speakers...

The Eclipse Foundation is actively seeking bids on 10 new FEEP Development Efforts, along with 5 outstanding Development Efforts that have not yet been bid. The objective is to have this work completed in the 1st quarter of 2017. Please see the list of development efforts, and submit your bids...

The call for papers for EclipseConverge 2017 is open. It is the first step toward what ought to be another great Eclipse event. For those who may not know, Eclipse Converge is a new event for the Eclipse community. It is a one-day summit dedicated exclusively to Eclipse technologies, with...

You remember the Friends of Eclipse Enhancement Program, right? It is a program that utilizes all the donations made through the Friends of Eclipse program to make significant and meaningful improvements and enhancements to the Eclipse IDE/Platform. I think it is a good time for me to provide you with...

FEEP does sound like a bird call, but it stands for Friend of Eclipse Enhancement Program. Yes, it is a mouthful. You may wonder what it stand for… Well, let me tell you! FEEP is a program launched by the Eclipse Foundation late last year to utilize all the donations...

Two weeks ago I was in Paris for Devoxx France 2016 where I’ve presented what’s new in the upcoming Eclipse release (aka Neon — to be released in June). During the talk, I’ve been asked if Eclipse will eventually cancel a background task ( a job in the Eclipse terminology)...