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The Great Git Experiment

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

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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Open Source Rules of Engagement

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines–in its section on principles–three open source rules of engagement: Openness, Transparency, and Meritocracy: Open – Eclipse is open to all; Eclipse provides the same opportunity to all. Everyone participates with the same rules; there … Continue reading →

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Active Projects

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

I ran a query against Dash to get some sense for project activity over the past couple of years. The graph below shows a comparison of how many active projects we have at Eclipse, compared against the total number of … Continue reading →

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Project Landing/Summary Pages

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

I recently blogged about some a new project summary page design that I’ve been tinkering with. Here’s what it looks like: The page is entirely data-driven from project metadata. The title comes from the projectname metadata entry; if this entry … Continue reading →

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Celebration Time Starts at 4pm today…

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

I made a mistake in my post yesterday. All Eclipse folks in the Greater Ottawa region are invited to join us at the Eclipse Foundation offices at 4pm today to celebrate the Indigo release. That’s an hour later than I … Continue reading →

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Git in the Dashboard

Posted on January 3, 2011 by

Before the break I started working on adding support for Git into the Eclipse Dashboard. I’m almost done. In fact, I have managed to generate the data for several projects: those projects that have correctly specified the location of their … Continue reading →

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WindowBuilder and CodePro Profiler are Coming to Eclipse

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

A few minutes ago, I posted two exciting new project proposals. WindowBuilder is already known as one of the best Java GUI builders on the market. It supports both SWT and Swing and is fully bi-directional, meaning that you can … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Number

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

I’m writing a little utility that scans the download.eclipse.org server to compare the contents against our IPZilla database. Essentially, I’m scanning for third-party libraries distributed from our servers. My script looks for any “*.jar” file (case insensitive) found either directly … Continue reading →

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Project Updates, August 2010

Posted on August 16, 2010 by

Note: Somehow, I managed to delete this post. So I’ve reposted it. Nothing new to see here. Move along… Correction: For reasons lost in the deep recesses of my brain, I mistakenly titled this August 200_8_. Not sure how this … Continue reading →

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Changes

Posted on August 11, 2010 by

We’ve made a few changes at the Eclipse Foundation. Anne, who many committers know as the “face of the EMO” has been doing double-duty on conferences (EclipseCon and Eclipse Summit Europe) and “project stuff” for a long time. Frankly, she’s … Continue reading →

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