Wayne Beaton's blog

Work in earnest has begun on a replacement for the Eclipse Developer Portal. We’re being a little ambitious with this new effort. We need to do more than what the current portal does. And we need to make it natural and easy to use. Further, I’ve decided to expand the...

Every time I post a new project proposal, I receive a handful of emails from people in the community asking to be added to the committer list on the proposal. But it doesn’t work that way: it’s really not up to me. For new projects, we have to cheat a...

I rolled out some changes last week that pull some information for Intellectual Property (IP) Logs from Git. IP Logs provide a record of where the various intellectual property contributions for a project come from; they are a very important tool when it comes to tracking the provenance of a...

For reasons that are difficult to articulate, I can’t get a particular Mitsou song out of my head (a little glimpse into the horrors of the early-90s late-80s Canadian music scene). But anyway… The Eclipse Foundation has decided to shut down the Eclipse Usage Data Collector. This decision was made...

You may have noticed that Git is a pretty big deal at Eclipse. We’ve come a long way since the topic was first broached at EclipseCon 2006. As of today, we have 61 projects at Eclipse with Git repositories. Of our 270 projects, 197 have source code repositories, which means...

The Contribution Questionnaire (CQ) is the entry point into the Eclipse intellectual property (IP) due diligence process (the full process is defined in the Due Diligence Process poster). The term CQ has expanded from it’s original meaning. Originally, CQs were literally a questionnaire filled out by a project committer to...

Last week, I vetoed four committer elections for two Technology projects. Two weeks ago, I counselled another PMC about their approval of an election that I would also have vetoed. I hate saying no to people. Committers are elected to Eclipse projects after establishing merit with the project. The measure...

I continually think about ways that we can improve the Eclipse Development Process and the various bits of infrastructure and process that exist to support it. The whole review process has always been troubling for me because it’s really turned into a bit of a rubber stamp process. Early on...

During a meeting yesterday, I was forced to think about the scene (not entirely safe for work) in Monty Python’s Life of Brian when the protagonist is introduced to the People’s Front of Judea. In this meeting we were discussing the creation of a new open source foundation. What made...

I recently blogged about some a new project summary page design that I’ve been tinkering with. Here’s what it looks like: The page is entirely data-driven from project metadata. The title comes from the projectname metadata entry; if this entry is not specified, the value is obtained from the projects...