Wayne Beaton's blog

I have been making my way through the results of the Great Galileo Release Review of 2009. It’s a slow-going, fairly mechanical process that eats your brain. The process has given me (if this is possible) even more respect for Anne who usually takes care of this sort of thing...

On June 24th, we have several project review scheduled. First, we have a creation review for the Pave project. We have a continuation review for the Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) project, a graduation/release review for the Jetty Project, and a release review for the eRCP project. Currently, in Eclipse, there...

I have scheduled a supplementary review for two projects that we missed on June 10th. The PHP Development Tools (PDT) and EMFT Mint projects will hold release reviews on June 17th, 2009 at 1500 UTC. When I say “hold release reviews”, I really mean that in the time leading up...

The intent of this project is to extend the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to embedded devices. eRCP is largely a set of components which are subsets of RCP components. It basically enables the same application model used on desktop machines to be used on devices. New features in this...

Today we held the big review call for projects included in the Galileo release. One of the interesting things that came out in the call is that the number of project reviews appears at odds with the number of projects listed in the Projects section on the Galileo Simultaneous Release...

My JavaOne encounter has caused me to think a lot lately about developing community around open source projects. Here’s a good rule of thumb if you want to develop a community around you’re open source project: don’t call your potential future users “stupid”. Yes, I am making a mountain out...

I had a bizarre experience at JavaOne yesterday. And I have witnesses. Lots of witnesses. We were approached at the Eclipse booth by a gentleman sporting a “FindBugs” t-shirt. Our conversation went something like this: The guy: Is there somebody here who works on the Eclipse project? Me: There are...

There’s a fundamental problem with the Automated IP Log Tool. Now, don’t get me wrong… there’s a lot of good stuff in there. And we’re going to keep on leveragin’ that good stuff as we move forward. But there’s a fundamental problem. For the uninitiated, the Automated IP Log Tool...

I’ve been blogging recently about some project/committer issues that I’d like to address. I’ve created a wiki page that I intend to use as a home for incubating ideas about things that my crack staff and I can focus attention on to make things better for everybody. My plan is...

In my many years as a consultant (prior to my start here at the Eclipse Foundation), I worked with more organizations that I can reasonably count. My feeling is that I have provided a lot of value to the groups that I’ve worked with. Depressingly, though, I feel that some...