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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Community Awards are Back

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 - 20:00 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation community awards are back for 2021! 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 2021. As these are community awards, we are asking the community to get involved by nominating someone they think is deserving of an award, and voting to select the winners.

Eclipse Dash License Tool March 2021 Update

Sunday, February 28, 2021 - 19:00 by Wayne Beaton

Intellectual property management is important for Eclipse projects. As a committer, you are our first line of defense when it comes to identifying and mitigating intellectual property issues. Over the past year or so, you’ve likely heard and seen rumblings of some of the innovations that we’ve been making in this space. The Eclipse IP Team has been working with individual project teams and the Eclipse Architecture Council to evolve a new set of practices that streamline our intellectual property management practices.

Barriers for Entry

Sunday, February 28, 2021 - 19:00 by Wayne Beaton

Dropping barriers to open up opportunities for contribution is a critical activity for Eclipse open source projects. Ideally, Eclipse open source project teams should be actively soliciting contribution, growing participation in the project, and otherwise being good open source citizens. Minimally, though, Eclipse project teams must engage in practices that make is so that when potential contributors do find the project, they have a fighting chance of being successful.

Vulnerabilities and Responsible Disclosure

Sunday, February 21, 2021 - 19:00 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation has a policy regarding the resolution and responsible disclosure of identified vulnerabilities. The short version is that this is one of the rare areas where open source transparency and openness ideals may be curtailed for a period of time while a vulnerability is addressed privately; but that all identified vulnerabilities, regardless of whether or not they are fixed, must be disclosed after no more than three months.

Eclipse Foundation is a CVE Numbering Authority

Sunday, January 31, 2021 - 19:00 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation is a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority. Eclipse project committers can use the tools that best suit their needs to remediate their vulnerability, provided that–when disclosed–related issues are tracked via the official (open and transparent) project issue tracker. To the extent possible, tools used to remediate a vulnerability must be vendor neutral; that is, all project committers should be able to participate in the remediation process.

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