Wayne Beaton's blog

One of the things that I quite like about my new job at the Eclipse Foundation is the feeling that I can make a difference in the lives of committers, adopters, users, and the broader community. Actually… check that. It’s not me that’s making the difference. Individuals and project teams...

The existing Automatic IP Log Tool and the new EMF-based one that I’m unveiling next week at Eclipse Summit Europe both make use of the iplog flag in Eclipse Bugzilla. After spending some quality time with the code that scours the various Eclipse Foundation databases to find contributions to a...

Openness and transparency are two of the more important principles at Eclipse and outward communication is an important part of both. It is through outward communication that we let the community know what’s going on. I recently sent out an email, for example, declaring to the community that the Doc2Model...

On Thursday this week (October 8/2009), I’m presenting Mylyn at the FOSSLC Eclipse Bootcamp in Ottawa. Doug Schaefer will be presenting “Eclipse CDT and developing for Android”, and Boris Bokowski will be introducing e4. I wish this was happening after Eclipse Summit Europe. If it were after the Summit, I...

Remy Suen’s “ How to Fix a Bug in Eclipse” article is now available on eclipse.org/resources. In this article, Remy discusses various tips and techniques for getting involved with an Eclipse project and providing a patch. I discussed this article a few posts back. In that post, I discussed some...

I am encouraged by the number of Eclipse project plans that have been updated over the last few weeks. I’m very positive that we will have most of them set in time for the approaching a September 30 deadline. I have spoken with about a dozen project leads directly to...

I’ve been working on a new version of the IP Log tool. This version leverages some pretty cool Eclipse technology. The first thing you see when you use the tool is the wizard. The wizard can populate a new IP Log with information gathered from the various Eclipse Foundation databases...

No. That’s not it. If you plan to fail, you fail to plan. Nope. What was it my SCUBA diving instructor said? Oh yes… if you fail to plan you plan to fail. Good planning is an important part of every Eclipse project. A project plan sets the direction of...

I’ve tweaked the way that the existing reports of usage data are being generated. For each type of report, we now include the bundle information (symbolic id and version). With this, you can see how many users are using particular versions of views, editors, commands, etc. You can browse the...

We some reviews coming up on September 16. First is a release review for Visual Editor. I think that this should come as a great relief for many in the community; I see lots of questions about this on various mailing lists and forums. Further, I tend to get at...