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Revising the Eclipse IP Policy: Third Party Content

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 23:07 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation is in the process of making a major update to our Intellectual Property Policy. A big part of this update is a change in the way that we will manage third party content.

Eclipse Contributor Agreement 3.0

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - 17:03 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA) is an agreement made by contributors certifying the work they are contributing was authored by them and/or they have the legal authority to contribute as open source under the terms of the project license.

Specification Scope in Jakarta EE

Monday, April 8, 2019 - 10:56 by Wayne Beaton

With the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) a single open source specification project has a dedicated project team of committers to create and maintain one or more specifications. The cycle of creation and maintenance extends across multiple versions of the specification, and so while individual members may come and go, the team remains and it is that team that is responsible for the every version of that specification that is created.

Renaming Java EE Specifications for Jakarta EE

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 10:17 by Wayne Beaton

It’s time to change the specification names…

Progress and Release Reviews

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 12:36 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) requires that a project team engage in a successful progress or release review before creating a formal release. We use progress and release reviews as an opportunity to validate that a project team is following the

Incubation in the Eclipse Development Process

Friday, March 15, 2019 - 12:33 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Development Process has a notion of phases. Two of those phases are Incubation and Mature.

Eclipse Foundation Specification Process Step-by-Step

Friday, March 8, 2019 - 08:52 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.

The Eclipse Foundation and GSoC 2019

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 23:54 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation has been selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2019. This is our fourteenth year participating in this awesome programme that matches (and funds) post-secondary students with open source software projects for the summer term (in the northern hemisphere).

EFSP: The Specification Committee Votes

Monday, January 21, 2019 - 12:40 by Wayne Beaton

One key difference between Eclipse open source software projects as defined by the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), and open source specification projects as defined by the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) is that specification projects must be aligned with exactly one specification committee.

Eclipse TLP Contributors by Quarter

Thursday, December 20, 2018 - 16:22 by Wayne Beaton

Alexander posted an interesting tweet the other day.

92 different contributors to Eclipse in the last 3 months aka 4.10 . This is probably(not checked) a record high !!! https://t.co/AP6bHj5G3g

— Alexander Kurtakov (@akurtakov) December 17, 2018

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