Monthly Archives: June 2011

Lots and Lots of Eclipse Bits

Posted on June 28, 2011 by waynebeaton

The Eclipse Development Process doesn’t make any specific requirements on what projects are supposed to distribute. Projects are required to operate in an open and transparent manner, so I guess that we could say that project are required to distribute … Continue reading →

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Data-driven Eclipse Project Landing Pages

Posted on June 27, 2011 by waynebeaton

A few months ago, I set about updating the look of the project summary pages that we automatically generate for projects. The code in the current project summary pages is, frankly, pretty brittle and I used the opportunity to do … Continue reading →

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Celebration Time Starts at 4pm today…

Posted on June 23, 2011 by waynebeaton

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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Celebration Time

Posted on June 22, 2011 by waynebeaton

Hey Ottawa-area committers: drop by the Eclipse Foundation offices for a little Indigo-release inspired socializin’ on Thursday afternoon from 3-5pm. We’ll have beer…

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Indigo by the Numbers

Posted on June 17, 2011 by waynebeaton

You may recall from last year’s post, Helios by the Numbers, that our official project count was really just one of a whole bunch of different numbers. I’m pleased to say that this year we really tightened this up; as … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Security Policy: Security Team and Reporting

Posted on June 13, 2011 by waynebeaton

One of the bigger things that I’ve been working on this year is the introduction of a formal Security Policy for Eclipse projects. Due to the nature of how work actually gets done around here, this has been a particularly … Continue reading →

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Indigo Reviews, Part deux

Posted on June 9, 2011 by waynebeaton

The first round of Eclipse Indigo Reviews is complete, with all reviews receiving a passing grade. That means that we have forty projects down, and twenty-two to go (total of sixty-two). The remaining projects reviews–listed below–will wrap up our Indigo … Continue reading →

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Indigo Release Reviews, Part One

Posted on June 8, 2011 by waynebeaton

I decided to split the project reviews for the Indigo release into two separate review periods. The first review, run from June 2-8/2011 is complete and all reviews have been declared successful. The following release reviews have been declared successful. … Continue reading →

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Default Line Numbers in Eclipse

Posted on June 8, 2011 by waynebeaton

I rediscovered an “IDE Hot Topic” yesterday: line numbers in the editor. For me, this rediscovery started with a Tweet: @ashwhite: To me the single thing that epitomizes the shittyness of Eclipse as an IDE is that line numbers are … Continue reading →

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