Author Archives: waynebeaton

Student Application Period Starts on Monday April 22/2013

Posted on April 22, 2013

Students, start your engines… The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student application process started earlier today, April 22/2013. You must apply to participate in the programme through Google’s Summer of Code 2013 website. We have provided an application template that … Continue reading →

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Eclipse at GitHub

Posted on April 3, 2013

Almost all Eclipse Git repositories are mirrored at GitHub. The mirrors were initially set up two years ago by the nice folks at GitHub with relatively little input from us. I provided a simple script–which lists all of our repositories … Continue reading →

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No seriously: We love Git. Seriously.

Posted on April 1, 2013

The cornerstone, I think, of a good April Fools Day joke is plausibility. The more reasonable or possible the topic, the more likely it is that you’ll fool somebody. I’m not sure what it says about the Eclipse Foundation that … Continue reading →

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The Great Git Experiment

Posted on March 31, 2013

While many projects have claimed success with Git, a great many projects and developers continue to struggle with its adoption. In the fall of 2012, several projects chose to terminate rather than migrate their CVS repositories to Git. We have … Continue reading →

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Nerdvana is a Data Centre

Posted on February 10, 2013

Earlier today, we started a pretty bold move from one data centre to a brand-spanking new one across the city. I say bold, because we had to take ourselves completely offline while we disconnected more than thirty bits of hardware, … Continue reading →

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Rolling out the new Project Management Infrastructure

Posted on February 8, 2013

I’ll admit that a really big part of me wanted to see who would notice. Last week, I relatively quietly changed how we represent project metadata by switching parts of the Eclipse projects website and the corresponding elements in the … Continue reading →

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Accepting Committers with Code

Posted on February 7, 2013

Most of the open source projects that I’m familiar with don’t tend to take significant contributions unless they come with development resources. Taking on significant new functionality can be pretty daunting for development teams that are already stretched. But how … Continue reading →

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The EMO Mailbag: This is ridiculously funny

Posted on January 4, 2013

I received this message via the EMO inbox today: haha noobs your number sorting in project explorer is like a mistake from windows 95 this is ridiculously funny He’s right. It is ridiculously funny. I’m assuming that the sender is … Continue reading →

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Connected to the Community

Posted on December 12, 2012

My previous entry spoke of an open source project’s responsibility to keep their community informed. In that entry, I focused on a big part of a project’s outbound communcation: the project website. Communication, though, extends beyond outward communication. A successful … Continue reading →

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Courting Your Open Source Project’s Community

Posted on December 11, 2012

I receive a lot of email from the community. Much of it is from frustrated users who are trying to make something work. Here’s a recent example: The problem was that I didn’t realise that the [project] comes ON TOP … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Cranky Old Programmer, EDP | 6 Comments