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Dogfooding the Eclipse Dash License Tool

Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 11:43 by Wayne Beaton

There’s background information about this post in my previous post. I’ve been using the Eclipse Dash License Tool on itself.

Updates to the Eclipse IP Due Diligence Process

Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 15:23 by Wayne Beaton

In October 2019, The Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors approved an update to the IP Policy that introduces several significant changes in our IP due diligence process. I’ve just pushed out an update to the Intellectual Property section in the Eclipse Foundation Project Handbook.

I’ll apologize in advance that the updates are still a little rough and require some refinements. Like the rest of the handbook, we continually revise and rework the content based on your feedback.

Revising the Eclipse IP Due Diligence Process for Third Party Content

Thursday, May 7, 2020 - 16:21 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors approved an update to the Eclipse Foundation’s Intellectual Property (IP) Policy in October 2019. With help from some of our open source project teams and the Eclipse Architecture Council, we’ve been defining, refining, and rolling out updates to our corresponding IP due diligence process and supporting services. A big part of this update is a change in the way that we will manage third party content.

Becoming an Eclipse Committer

Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 10:11 by Wayne Beaton

Committers are the developers who hold the keys for an open source project. They are the ones who get to push code directly to source code repositories, configure build servers, push the output of builds to the download server, and so on. They are the ones who make decisions that set the path of their open source project.

Git Contribution Activity Charts for Eclipse Projects

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 12:57 by Wayne Beaton

This post is brought to you today by the Eclipse EGit Project. Eclipse EGit is the Eclipse open source project that provides Git integration for the Eclipse Platform.

Specification Project Committer Agreements

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 13:36 by Wayne Beaton

We identified a hole in our committer agreement process that excluded individuals with a certain employment status from participating in Eclipse Foundation open source specification projects operating under the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP).

Organizing Your Eclipse Foundation Open Source Project Team

Monday, January 27, 2020 - 16:04 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation Development Process (AKA, the Eclipse Development Process or EDP) says nothing about how teams should organize.

Yearly Release Reviews for Eclipse Projects

Monday, December 2, 2019 - 10:02 by Wayne Beaton

One of the key roles of he Eclipse Architecture Council is to maintain the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). Maintenance usually takes the form of an update every year or so. Updates to the EDP are approved by the Eclipse Board of Directors.

Eclipse Committer and Contributor Paperwork

Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 19:03 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation has several agreements that we use to ensure that contributors understand the terms by which they make their contributions and, especially, to give them an opportunity to assert that they have the necessary rights to make those contributions under the terms of the corresponding project license.

Eclipse IP Policy: Reviewing Third Party Content

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 16:33 by Wayne Beaton

I’ll start this discussion with some background…

Under the original Eclipse Foundation Intellectual Property (IP) Policy, every bit of third party content needed to be thoroughly reviewed before it could be used by an Eclipse project. And the reviews were thorough: license scan, provenance check, scan for anomalies, … Reviews of third party content literally took days, weeks, and months. All of that review needed to be complete before the project team could commit any code that made any reference to that third party content.

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