Archive for July, 2009
e4 0.9 Release
The EMO has just approved the release of e4 0.9. There s a lot of excitement around this project and I encourage everybody to get involved. First, please read McQ’s excellent overview, then read the whitepaper. Visit the e4 site. Most important, go and get it (though you may have to wait for at least [...]
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Finding Your Way Through the Code
One of the things that you can do to make your code—and by extension your project—accessible to your adopter community is to make the code as easy to find and navigate as possible. I have some thoughts about making code easy to find that I’ll share another day. Today, I’m thinking about navigating. By navigating, [...]
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New Committer Handbook
Last week I started working on the New Committer Handbook as a resource to help—curiously enough—new committers get up to speed with all those things that they need to know.
It’s still very much a work in progress, but it’s coming along nicely. My ultimate goal is to provide a concise resource that give the reader [...]
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Conspiracy Theory for the Day
So I have this new conspiracy theory. I’m not sure if I actually believe it, but I think it’s plausible.
In my absence last week, I managed to accumulate more than 2,000 junk emails in my eclipse.org inbox. Many of these emails were the standard spam-fare. I recall reading that if some small percentage of people [...]
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Development Resources
I’ve started an effort to rework the Development Resources wiki page. Most of this effort is concerned with providing some additional prose around the existing content to make it easier for contributors and committers to make sense of the Eclipse Development Process and navigate the many resources available.
I’ve decided to start with some discussion about [...]
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