Wayne Beaton's blog

This just in: Call for Participation – Deadline August 18, 2009 ECLIPSE SUMMIT EUROPE 2009 October 27-29, 2009 Ludwigsburg, Germany www.eclipsesummit.org The call for participation at the 4th annual Eclipse Summit Europe is closing soon on August 18, 2009. You are invited to submit proposals for short talks, long talks...

With Bug 222105, Remy Suen has assembled an Eclipse Corner article describing how to contribute to Eclipse. An important part of contributing to an Eclipse project is actually obtaining the code for that project. Unfortunately, we currently don’t have a good story for figuring out how to generically find the...

The EMO has just approved the release of e4 0.9. There s a lot of excitement around this project and I encourage everybody to get involved. First, please read McQ’s excellent overview, then read the whitepaper. Visit the e4 site. Most important, go and get it (though you may have...

One of the things that you can do to make your code—and by extension your project—accessible to your adopter community is to make the code as easy to find and navigate as possible. I have some thoughts about making code easy to find that I’ll share another day. Today, I’m...

Last week I started working on the New Committer Handbook as a resource to help—curiously enough—new committers get up to speed with all those things that they need to know. It’s still very much a work in progress, but it’s coming along nicely. My ultimate goal is to provide a...

So I have this new conspiracy theory. I’m not sure if I actually believe it, but I think it’s plausible. In my absence last week, I managed to accumulate more than 2,000 junk emails in my eclipse.org inbox. Many of these emails were the standard spam-fare. I recall reading that...

I’ve started an effort to rework the Development Resources wiki page. Most of this effort is concerned with providing some additional prose around the existing content to make it easier for contributors and committers to make sense of the Eclipse Development Process and navigate the many resources available. I’ve decided...

The Eclipse Management Organization (EMO) does a lot of reviews. We do a review when a new project is created. We do a review when a project wants to do a release. We do a move, continuation, termination reviews and more. For each of these reviews some form of documentation...

Hey students! Looking for something fun to do this summer? Do you want to be part of the coolest open source project ever? If you haven’t been accepted already, you’re a little late for Google Summer of Code. However, there are still lots of great opportunities to do open source...

A couple days ago, I came across this entry in the DLTK mailing list: We are using the Python component, but we are a small startup company and don’t have the resources to work on it ourselves. We would be interested in code completion for the Python component and debugging...