Vendor Neutrality in an Open Project
Imagine that you want to contribute to an open source project. You visit the project to browse the information provided...
Top Ten Ways to Say Eclipse
Every couple of days, I get an email from somebody looking for a price quote for Eclipse. Generally, the sender...
Open Source Rules of Engagement
The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines–in its section on principles–three open source rules of engagement: Openness, Transparency, and Meritocracy: Open...
Active Projects
I ran a query against Dash to get some sense for project activity over the past couple of years. The...
Best Birthday Cake Ever
Kudos to organizer Andrew Overholt for pulling off a great Eclipse Demo Camp in Toronto–hosted in Red Hat‘s beautiful (and...
Connecting Releases with Reviews and the Plan
One of the things about the current developer portal that drives me absolutely mad is the fact that releases and...
Eclipse Project Management Infrastructure Technology Choice
Let me start by saying that I always prefer the dogfooding option. And I tried really hard to put a...
Eclipse Project Management Infrastructure
Work in earnest has begun on a replacement for the Eclipse Developer Portal. We’re being a little ambitious with this...
Becoming a Committer
Every time I post a new project proposal, I receive a handful of emails from people in the community asking...
Git Commits are Automagically Recorded in IP Logs
I rolled out some changes last week that pull some information for Intellectual Property (IP) Logs from Git. IP Logs...
Bye Bye Mon UDC
For reasons that are difficult to articulate, I can’t get a particular Mitsou song out of my head (a little...
The Great Git Migration
You may have noticed that Git is a pretty big deal at Eclipse. We’ve come a long way since the...