Wayne Beaton's blog

My last few blog posts discuss a presentation that I regularly deliver titled “ What is Eclipse?“. As previously discussed, I tend to introduce people to Eclipse by starting with what they already know: Eclipse is a movie about vampires that I have no intention of watching. Eclipse is a...

If you’ve just joined me mid-arc, you should probably take a step back and acquaint yourself with what I’m doing here with this little series of posts. I’ll wait… Basically, I’m going through a slide deck that I present regularly as a means of level-setting an audience. Most people seem...

On Monday, I started a blog arc that will discuss the “ What is Eclipse” talk that I present on occasion. I have delivered this material both standalone and as a context-setting part of a presentation. I’m actually revisiting and revising that presentation as I go through this blogging exercise...

A challenge that we revisit with some frequency is the Eclipse Elevator Pitch: How do you explain Eclipse in fifteen seconds? Ultimately, I’m not sure it’s possible. Pretty much every time I speak to a group, I spend time talking about Eclipse with a deck of slides that are aptly...

Here are some interesting numbers about Helios. At least I think they’re interesting. 39 Projects are listed on the Helios Participating Projects wiki page (many entries in this table include one or more subprojects); 54 sets of documentation were sent to the EMO for the release review (culminating in a...

Ian and I represented Eclipse in the Google I/O Sandbox. We used the Open Social support being developed in the E4 project as our hook. I estimate that less than 50% of the folks who dropped by the booth were familiar with Open Social. A lot of folks just dropped...

This happens with disturbing frequency… An Eclipse user is frustrated. S/he been trying to make something work for a few hours. Maybe even a few days. It’s just not working like s/he thinks it should be. Finally, s/he decides to send me a note. In that note, s/he questions my...

My wife said something interesting to me when I arrived home from EclipseCon on Friday night. “It must be nice to be able to relax now that the conference has passed”, she said. Funny. Funny in that I feel like there’s so much more to do now that EclipseCon has...

On March 22, I will be presenting my revised edition of the Eclipse Development Process to the Eclipse Board of Directors for their approval. I’ve been discussing the upcoming changes in this blog, and in a handful of bug reports, so I’m pretty comfortable with the ideas. But like many...

There is some awkward wording in the current version of the Eclipse Development Process with regard to project leadership. I’d like to try and clean that up. Here’s what I’m thinking: 4.6 Leaders There are two different types of project leadership at Eclipse: The Project Management Committee (PMC) and Project...