Wayne Beaton's blog

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...

The Eclipse Development Process doesn’t make any specific requirements on what projects are supposed to distribute. Projects are required to operate in an open and transparent manner, so I guess that we could say that project are required to distribute their source code. And they do distribute source code via...

A few months ago, I set about updating the look of the project summary pages that we automatically generate for projects. The code in the current project summary pages is, frankly, pretty brittle and I used the opportunity to do a little refactoring and add a little structure. I’m pretty...

I made a mistake in my post yesterday. All Eclipse folks in the Greater Ottawa region are invited to join us at the Eclipse Foundation offices at 4pm today to celebrate the Indigo release. That’s an hour later than I suggested yesterday. Sorry about the confusion.

Hey Ottawa-area committers: drop by the Eclipse Foundation offices for a little Indigo-release inspired socializin’ on Thursday afternoon from 3-5pm. We’ll have beer…

You may recall from last year’s post, Helios by the Numbers, that our official project count was really just one of a whole bunch of different numbers. I’m pleased to say that this year we really tightened this up; as a result, I only have two numbers. Officially, we have...

One of the bigger things that I’ve been working on this year is the introduction of a formal Security Policy for Eclipse projects. Due to the nature of how work actually gets done around here, this has been a particularly interesting challenge. The security policy cannot, for example, make any...

The first round of Eclipse Indigo Reviews is complete, with all reviews receiving a passing grade. That means that we have forty projects down, and twenty-two to go (total of sixty-two). The remaining projects reviews–listed below–will wrap up our Indigo Review activity. Note that three projects– EGit, JGit, and WindowBuilder–are...

I decided to split the project reviews for the Indigo release into two separate review periods. The first review, run from June 2-8/2011 is complete and all reviews have been declared successful. The following release reviews have been declared successful. Data Tools 1.9 Release Review AMP 0.9.0 Release Review EMF...

I rediscovered an “IDE Hot Topic” yesterday: line numbers in the editor. For me, this rediscovery started with a Tweet: @ashwhite: To me the single thing that epitomizes the shittyness of Eclipse as an IDE is that line numbers are off by default. #fb Hopefully my kids aren’t reading this...