Wayne Beaton's blog

I worry that the language we use is so overloaded that it’s easy to get confused. I’ve been working with one group who is “graduating” some code and committers out of their Incubator Project. Naturally, they feel that they need to do a Graduation Review. Except that Graduation Reviews are...

It started as a bit of a weekend distraction, but turned into something a little more. I’ve always thought that the Eclipse Projects Gateway page isn’t quite living up to its potential. It seems to me that our user and adopter community should be able to use this page to...

The IDE for Education (ide4edu) project has made some progress over these last few months with the help of some undergraduate students. Most of the effort has been around making Eclipse just a little easier to use during those first few months of learning. For the first time user, the...

In my previous post discussing pending change in the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), I tried to present my view of what projects should look like at Eclipse. Scott suggested that a few pictures might help. It’s important to me that these concepts be understood. Therefore, I present: The. Best. Graphics...

I’ve been wrestling with this one for a while… Just what is the role of a container project? I asked this question more formally in Bug 301065. I invite you to make your comments. The Eclipse Development Process is, after-all, your process. Frankly, I think it’s time to do away...

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines “incubation” as a phase that projects go through on their way to maturity. New projects start in incubation to allow the project’s committers time to familiarize themselves with the state of being an Eclipse project, give them time to start developing a following in...

These are heady times in Eclipse project-land. I feel busier than a… well, I’m really, really busy. We have creation reviews pending for the Modeling Team Framework and Object Teams proposals. Object Teams is an already-established, mature project that’s moving to Eclipse. The logistics of the move are interesting enough...

I made a mention to Mike a couple of weeks back that I wanted to make a few changes to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). He seemed to think that evolving our process was a grand idea and reminded me that changes to the development process require approval from the...

It seems natural to me that the EGit project is doing their developing using Git itself. With this in mind, the EGit project has created and is managing their own Git instance on one of our vservers at egit.eclipse.org. With this server, the EGit project is helping us at the...

Having a up-to-date (and correct) IP Log is important for projects and we’re trying to provide as much help as we can to make sure that they’re in order. I’ve been working with a couple of projects to help them get their IP Logs in order. In the process, I’ve...