Mike Milinkovich's blog

I mentioned in a comment last week that — pending Board approval of the 2010 budget — there are a number of items which we’re looking at for 2010 that we at the Eclipse Foundations are pretty excited about. These are some major pieces of work that we are going...

Bjorn, Your latest post deserves a clear response. Your former colleagues at the Eclipse Foundation have tolerated your public abuse quietly because we are professionals, and we honestly thought that you would tire of it. Apparently we were wrong. But the time has come to say it: You are a...

Calling the Eclipse Ottawa community! The Eclipse Foundation would like to invite everyone in the local Eclipse community to join us at Marshy’s on the afternoon of December 18th. If you can make it, please add your name to the meetup page. We hope to see you there!

Hearty congratulations are due to Microsoft, Soyatec and Tasktop for their announcements yesterday regarding Eclipse and Silverlight, Azure and Windows 7. It is great to see Microsoft providing support to the ecosystem to ensure Eclipse remains a great development environment for the Windows platform (which still represents almost 80% of...

Last week at the Open World Forum, I had the pleasure of attending Michael Tiemann’s talk on the “Road to the Digital Recovery”. Michael kindly summarized his key points on his blog. The most interesting sound bite from Michael’s talk was his estimate that $1 trillion is wasted every year...

I just received an email out of the blue that really reminded me of how important it is for all of us in the Eclipse community to help our users and adopters. I just wanted to express my appreciation for the help Scott and the ECF team have been providing...

I was asked earlier today if I could describe “ …the Eclipse community and its differences between other traditional commercial open source communities say like Sugar’s and non, or less pure commercial communities like Apache.” Darn good question. Off the top of my head here are a couple of key...

A bit of good news for the Eclipse Public License this morning comes from Intuit, which announced that their community site code.intuit.com will be using the EPL. Intuit had previously decided to use the Common Public License, but when we pointed out that it had been superseded at the OSI...

Git has been growing in popularity, and I am particularly interested in its potential to reduce barriers to participating and contributing to Eclipse projects. There has been a vigorous conversation about using Git for Eclipse projects going on for some time over in bug 257706, including my own reservations about...

Denis pushes the Big Red Button It was smooth as silk this morning as our esteemed Webmaster Denis Roy pushed the “big red button” to unleash Galileo. He had his moment of trepidation, but so far everything has gone very smoothly. Thirty-three projects, 380 committers, 24MLOC+…this is a major software...