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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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“Wir werden e4 in Helios wiedersehen”, Part Five
Logistics and infrastructure is the topic in part five my interview in Eclipse Magazin.
5. 33 projects - that also means a certain personal and logistic effort to be managed by the Eclipse Foundation. Which infrastructure has been established to assure that the processes are respected by the projects?
Formally, the release train is really the responsibility [...]
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“Wir werden e4 in Helios wiedersehen”, Part Four
Does Eclipse have a weight problem? I tackle that question in part four from my interview in Eclipse Magazin.
4. 33 different Eclipse projects are participating in Galileo. If we add the different sub-projects, the number raises up to over 50 projects! This is a great achievement for sure! But on the other hand: 50 projects [...]
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Eclipse Maven Repository
Bug 283745 proposes that we build and maintain a Maven repository at eclipse.org. Now, I’m not a “Maven Guy” (only because I haven’t yet had any real need to use it), but it seems like a pretty good idea to me. We discussed this bug at today’s Architecture Council meeting.
Do you agree that this is [...]
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“Wir werden e4 in Helios wiedersehen”, Part Three
In this installment, I bring you the fourth question (#3, zero-based) from my interview in Eclipse Magazin.
3. What is an Eclipse-project obliged to do in order to take part of the Common Release Train, e.g. the Galileo release train?
- Which release processes are necessary? - What are the guidelines for the IP Clearance? - What [...]
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“Wir werden e4 in Helios wiedersehen”, Part Two
I’ve started posting excerpts from an interview I did for the latest issue of Eclipse Magazin. This magazine makes me wish that I could read German and had a reasonably long daily commute by train. But, alas, I do not.
Yesterday, I posted the first two questions. Today, I’ve posted the third.
2. What was the evolution [...]
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“Wir werden e4 in Helios wiedersehen”, Part One
I thought I might publish the English version of an interview I did for the recent issue of Eclipse Magazin (with permission of the publisher, of course). The German version is a delightful bit of prose that my Mother now displays proudly.
I was asked a total of nine questions. Here are the first two:
0. Wayne [...]
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Article describing how to contribute to Eclipse
With Bug 222105, Remy Suen has assembled an Eclipse Corner article describing how to contribute to Eclipse. An important part of contributing to an Eclipse project is actually obtaining the code for that project. Unfortunately, we currently don’t have a good story for figuring out how to generically find the code that needs to be [...]
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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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