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Updates to the Eclipse IP Due Diligence Process 2022

Monday, December 5, 2022 - 19:00 by Wayne Beaton
The 2022 update to the Eclipse Foundation’s IP Policy, approved by the Board of Directors in June 2022, resulted in the following changes: The Eclipse Public License is no longer special. The Eclipse Foundation was originally conceived as a single-license foundation, but that hasn’t been true for a very long time. With this change, we acknowledge that our open source projects leverage a variety of licenses and that no single one among them is special (but we still love and highly recommend the Eclipse Public License).
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Contacting an Eclipse Open Source Project

Sunday, November 20, 2022 - 19:00 by Wayne Beaton
All Eclipse open source projects are required to operate in an open and transparent manner. This includes communication: all communication between and with the project team uses open channels. Specifically, we have no private channels for open source project work. Related, we don’t facilitate private communication between project team members and the community. If you want to connect with an Eclipse open source project team, then you need to use the designated public channels.
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Eclipse Foundation Development Process Votes

Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - 20:00 by Wayne Beaton
If an Eclipse open source project team wants to include the community in a vote to, say, decide what functionality to include in the code base or decide whether or not they’re ready to do a release, that’s entirely up to the project team. If a project team wants to include the community in decisions (e.g., “do we implement X or Y?”), they’re free to do so. Personally, I think that it’s foolish to make community votes in such matters binding, but if that’s what a project team wants to do, they can have at it.
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Community Awards are Back

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 20:00 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation community awards are returning once again! The Eclipse Foundation has a vibrant community of many dedicated individuals, who deserve to be recognized for their contributions.

To recognize our community members, we will be presenting awards for Top Committer, Top Newcomer Evangelist, Top Contributor, and Lifetime Achievement at EclipseCon 2022.

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Eclipse Dash License Tool and The Maven Reactor

Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 19:00 by Wayne Beaton
The Eclipse Dash License Tool identifies the licenses of content. It is intended primarily for use by Eclipse committers to vet third party content used by their Eclipse open source project. The license tool has a Maven plugin that you can use find license information for all of your Maven project’s dependencies. That is, the Maven plugin can identify the entire transitive closure of dependencies described in your project’s pom.xml file(s) (dependencies of dependencies recursively) and from that sort out curated license information.
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The Eclipse Foundation Is Your Destination For Commercial-Friendly Open Source Projects

Monday, December 13, 2021 - 19:00 by Wayne Beaton
As a member of the Eclipse Foundation, you already know the value of making a project open source. Open source allows organizations to participate in a thriving developer community, while sharing the costs of innovation and focusing their resources on building differentiated features that customers value. However, all open source organizations are not created equal and certain objectives will be better met by partnering with one that best aligns with your organizational needs.
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Make This Person We Hired a Committer

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 20:00 by Wayne Beaton
Here’s a scenario: you work for an organization that contributes to open source and you’ve hired a developer to work on your favourite open source project. You need to make them a committer. How do you do that? I get this sort of request every so often: “we’ve hired so-and-so and we need you to make them a committer, m’kay?”. The short answer is: no.
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Running a Successful Open Source Project

Thursday, May 13, 2021 - 20:00 by Wayne Beaton
Originally posted on October 26/2017. This post is based on a talk that Gunnar Wagenknecht and I delivered at the Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 and Devoxx US 2017. This content was published in the All Eyes on Open Source issue of JAX Magazine. Running an open source project is easy. All you have to do is make your source code available and you’re open source, right? Well, maybe. Ultimately, whether or not an open source project is successful depends on your definition of success.
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Progress and Release Reviews

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - 20:00 by Wayne Beaton
The Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP) describes a release as anything that is distributed for adoption outside of the committers of a project (effectively, if you stamp something with a version number and tell the general audience to download it, it’s a release). Appropriately labeled nightly, integration, and milestone builds are not considered releases. Further, the EDP describes a requirement for all Eclipse projects to engage in a review prior to creating a release.
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Eclipse Foundation Specification Process Step-by-Step

Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 20:00 by Wayne Beaton
Scientific progress goes “boink”? – Hobbes The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) provides a framework and governance model for developers engaged in the process of developing specifications. Specification: A specification is a collection of related artifacts.
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