Archive for June, 2009
Review Documentation Format Changes
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 is required. The documentation (often [...]
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Summer projects for students
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 work this summer. We list thousands [...]
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I love it when I see questions like this…
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 with Jython.
I would be interested to [...]
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Finishing up the Galileo Release Reviews
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. I’ve been trying to work [...]
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More reviews on June 24th: Pave, ATF, Jetty, and eRCP
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 is a set of atomic operations [...]
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Upcoming Project Reviews: PDT and Mint
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 to the review date, I [...]
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Upcoming Release Review: eRCP 1.3
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 release include:
Currency with Eclipse 3.5
OSGi and [...]
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Galileo Release Reviews
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 wiki page. It all depends [...]
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Developing Community
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 of the proverbial molehill.
The first [...]
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Where is ReportBugs when we need ‘em?
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 three of us here that work on [...]
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