Archive for the 'Community' Category
The Power to Make things Better
One of the things that I quite like about my new job at the Eclipse Foundation is the feeling that I can make a difference in the lives of committers, adopters, users, and the broader community. Actually… check that. It’s not me that’s making the difference. Individuals and project teams seem to be stepping up [...]
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+iplog
The existing Automatic IP Log Tool and the new EMF-based one that I’m unveiling next week at Eclipse Summit Europe both make use of the iplog flag in Eclipse Bugzilla. After spending some quality time with the code that scours the various Eclipse Foundation databases to find contributions to a project, I’ve come to realize [...]
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Notification by email
Openness and transparency are two of the more important principles at Eclipse and outward communication is an important part of both. It is through outward communication that we let the community know what’s going on. I recently sent out an email, for example, declaring to the community that the Doc2Model project proposal is now available [...]
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How to Fix a Bug in Eclipse
Remy Suen’s “How to Fix a Bug in Eclipse” article is now available on eclipse.org/resources. In this article, Remy discusses various tips and techniques for getting involved with an Eclipse project and providing a patch.
I discussed this article a few posts back. In that post, I discussed some technology that I’ve been tinkering with to [...]
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Project Plans
I am encouraged by the number of Eclipse project plans that have been updated over the last few weeks. I’m very positive that we will have most of them set in time for the approaching a September 30 deadline. I have spoken with about a dozen project leads directly to help them assemble their plans. [...]
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IP Log Tool Update
I’ve been working on a new version of the IP Log tool. This version leverages some pretty cool Eclipse technology.
The first thing you see when you use the tool is the wizard. The wizard can populate a new IP Log with information gathered from the various Eclipse Foundation databases. As you can see from the [...]
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If you plan to plan, you fail to fail
No. That’s not it. If you plan to fail, you fail to plan. Nope. What was it my SCUBA diving instructor said? Oh yes… if you fail to plan you plan to fail.
Good planning is an important part of every Eclipse project. A project plan sets the direction of the project. It lets the committers [...]
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Upcoming Project Reviews
We some reviews coming up on September 16. First is a release review for Visual Editor. I think that this should come as a great relief for many in the community; I see lots of questions about this on various mailing lists and forums. Further, I tend to get at least one personal email message [...]
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“Wir werden e4 in Helios wiedersehen”, Part Seven
I’m lumping the last two questions about Galileo from my interview in Eclipse Magazin into this final part seven of the series.
7. Galileo is over now and the next release cycle is waiting - there is even already a name for it: “Helios”! On the other hand people always are talking about Eclipse e4 as [...]
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“Wir werden e4 in Helios wiedersehen”, Part Six
Enforcement and honoring of obligations in the Galileo Release Train was the theme in part six of my interview in Eclipse Magazin.
6. Who does take the decisions - for example when a project isn’t able to fulfil the obligations?
There are two bodies at work here. First, is is the Planning Council that makes decisions with [...]
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