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Originally posted in the the February 2019 Eclipse Foundation Newsletter. The Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP), which extends the Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP), defines a blueprint for collaborating on specification development in open source. Committers are the ones who tend to develop most of the content. Committers have the...

Originally posted on January 27, 2020 The Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP) says nothing about how teams should organise. The EDP defines a committer role: committers are those developers who have the ability to make decisions for the project (e.g., push commits to project Git repositories and configure build servers)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...