Wayne Beaton's blog

There are three reviews wrapping up on February 29/2012. First up, is the Orion project with their 0.4 Release Review. Orion’s objective is to create a browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run...

I loaded the PHP Development Tools into my fresh installation of Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers Juno M5 this morning. As I was waiting for the contents of the Juno software repository to load, what I saw in the status bar made me giggle: Maybe it’s just me. But...

I decided to spend some time reviewing the talks at EclipseCon 2012 and came across this gem: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Build With Hudson driving builds from the top; Git, Gerrit, Maven, and Tycho in the middle; and Mylyn controlling the pieces from the developer’s...

Imagine that you want to contribute to an open source project. You visit the project to browse the information provided by the project team and make your way to the downloads page. There, you discover that the downloads are hosted at a separate site owned and maintained by one of...

Every couple of days, I get an email from somebody looking for a price quote for Eclipse. Generally, the sender is a software reseller acting on behalf of a client. Sometimes they ask to partner with us, sometimes they just want a simple price quote. In all cases, I answer...

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines–in its section on principles–three open source rules of engagement: Openness, Transparency, and Meritocracy: Open – Eclipse is open to all; Eclipse provides the same opportunity to all. Everyone participates with the same rules; there are no rules to exclude any potential contributors which include...

I ran a query against Dash to get some sense for project activity over the past couple of years. The graph below shows a comparison of how many active projects we have at Eclipse, compared against the total number of projects. For the purposes of this graph, I have defined...

Kudos to organizer Andrew Overholt for pulling off a great Eclipse Demo Camp in Toronto–hosted in Red Hat‘s beautiful (and very clean) new digs on Eglinton Avenue–last night. Andrew Robinson from Red Hat started things off with a demonstration of some Eclipse-based tools used to drive Koji, the software that...

One of the things about the current developer portal that drives me absolutely mad is the fact that releases and their corresponding reviews have no direct connection. I spent a few hours a few months ago hacking code to form tenuous connections between things that should be pretty tightly connected...

Let me start by saying that I always prefer the dogfooding option. And I tried really hard to put a case together for dogfooding the Eclipse Project Management Infrastructure, but in the end, I decided that implementing the new infrastructure in Drupal was our best option. The decision was made...