Since I’m a Friend of Eclipse, I was pleased to see this email today!
So if you want to grab Helios a day early, why not consider supporting Eclipse by becoming a friend! We are almost at 360 Friends for Helios too!
Let’s fill that progress bar!
Author Archive
Helios and EGit and JGit 0.8.4
By Chris Aniszczyk
Last week the EGit and JGit teams pushed out 0.8.4 as the final contribution to the Eclipse Helios release. A few people praised the teams on how quickly progress is coming along which is great. A few people have also asked about what is officially support in EGit versus typical command line usage so here’s a picture to help with that…
A few people have also pinged me about a Maven repository for JGit. You can find information on the repository on our download page.
An important thing to note is that I still consider the 0.8 release a beta (we are still in incubation). If you’re familiar with the Git CLI, the tooling should be pretty easy to pick up. We are planning to do a 0.9 release in late September for Helios SR1 which should contain the last missing pieces needed for mass adoption of Git within the Eclipse community. For now, if you like to live on the bleeding edge please give the 0.8 release a try and report any issues you find.
Friends of Eclipse Program Expansion
By Chris Aniszczyk
The past couple days I’ve been in scenic Raleigh, NC for a Eclipse.org board meeting. The committer representatives and I brought a proposal forward to help alleviate some of the problems discussed in bug 313479. The goal is to expand the Friend of Eclipse program and use funds to benefit the entire Eclipse committer and contributor community.
Here’s the exact board resolution…
RESOLVED, the EMO is instructed to expand the Friends of Eclipse (FoE) program to:
a) provide greater community transparency regarding the allocation of funds, consistent with the Bylaws; and
b) consider greater inducements for larger donations.All donations will be used for the benefit of the entire Eclipse committer and contributor community.
The EMO will create a governance process for transparently allocating the FoE funds.
Stay tuned for details, the expansion should hopefully be implemented in the near future. In the end, the committer representatives hope this helps the Eclipse community and makes people think about becoming a Friend of Eclipse to support Eclipse!
Eclipse Helios Review Article at developerWorks
By Chris Aniszczyk
My article about the Eclipse Helios release finally went live today at developerWorks.
Thanks for the Eclipse.org project leads and committers out there that took the time to send screenshots and quotes. Also, while you’re at it, why not consider becoming a Friend of Helios and Eclipse to support Eclipse development!
CFP: Eclipse Summit Europe 2010
By Chris Aniszczyk
Eclipse Summit Europe 2010 is happening towards in November this year and the CFP has just opened recently.
Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) tends to be one of my favorite Eclipse-related events because it’s a bit more of a smaller and intimate conference than EclipseCon is. I find myself having great technical discussions with folks after sessions and of course since we are in Germany, there’s great beer. So when you have time, please consider submitting a talk for ESE. I’m looking forward to a great program.
San Diego Rock n’ Roll Half Marathon 2010
By Chris Aniszczyk
Last weekend I head the pleasure of running the San Diego Rock n’ Roll Half Marathon with some buddies. The weather was gorgeous, the 6:15am half marathon start time, not so much.
I believe there were about 40,000 runners doing the race. It’s always nice to know when you start in corral 1 and turn around and just see a wave of people behind you (I think there were about 40 corrals total).
I somehow managed to have a great run given the little training I’ve been doing as of late. I think my results mostly have to do with me doing CrossFit and heat acclimatization runs during the hottest part of the day in Austin. Anyways, I managed to cross the finish line at Sea World in 1:28:05 which is a new half marathon PR for me! When I first started the race, I was chilling with the 1:30 pace group but after a few miles, I felt pretty good and picked up my pace. The course was mostly flat with some hills and some surprising highway running! My results ended up putting me 65th out of 13561 runners overall and 11th out of 601 runners in my age group. My splits were as follows…
5K: 20:54
6.3M: 42:35
11M: 1:16:07
I’m looking at doing sub 1:25 next, it should be easily reachable if I start doing more track workouts. On a side note, I got to spend some time in La Jolla, CA after the race which was nice. There’s nothing like a little post-race brunching and noshing in La Jolla. On top of that, it managed to bring back some great and interesting memories from last year. But alas, life’s too short for regrets, right?
San Diego Breweries In 24 Hours
By Chris Aniszczyk
Last weekend, I had an opportunity with some friends to hit up San Diego for a mancation which included brewery tours and running a half marathon. The genesis of the trip was when a lot of us realized our summer was going to be busy as hell so we better get a quick vacation in before things get hellish again. To have a proper mancation, you need to have an attention grabbing colored Mustang.
The first stop on our brewery tour was Green Flash Brewing.
I’ll have to say, this is one of the most pleasant and unpretentious breweries I’ve ever been to. It also has one of my favorite beers, Le Freak, which is a Belgian Style IPA. All you have to imagine is a ménage à trois between an American IPA, a Belgian Trippel and some extra hops… so delicious. After spending $6 for 10 or so generously poured 2oz samples of all their beers, we were ready to move on. The next stop on the brewery tour was Stone Brewing which I almost confused for a winery given how nice it was. On top of that, the restaurant inside the brewery is top notch.
I’m a fan of Stone’s Ruination IPA and their selection of beers on draft was impressive… I mean they had Piny the Elder on draft which made me a bit jealous and salivate…
After awhile, we decided to stop the brewery tour a bit short because the lack of a designated driver and the desire to run a half marathon the next morning at 6:15am. So the obvious next choice was to stop at Trader Joes (since we don’t have one in Austin) and shamelessly fill up on chocolate…
In the end, I always enjoy my time in the San Diego area.
Speaking at the Eclipse Helios DemoCamp Toronto
By Chris Aniszczyk
Well I have some good news. I’ll be in scenic Toronto for the Eclipse Helios DemoCamp on June 29th, 2010. I’ll probably speak about Git and Eclipse unless people have other requests.
The event is graciously hosted by Red Hat and organized by Andrew Overholt.
If you’re interested in speaking or attending, please let us know. Sign up on the wiki! After the event, we’ll go for frosty beverages because speaking about open source makes me thirsty! 🙂
Interesting Trends from the Eclipse Community Survey 2010
By Chris Aniszczyk
Ian Skerrett recently posted the trends from the Eclipse Community Survey 2010.
What interests me?
“Linux continues to gain market share on the developer desktop”
“In 2007, 20% said Linux was their development operating system. Now, in 2010 almost a third (33%) say Linux. The biggest loser seems to be Windows 73.8% in 2007 down to 58.3% in 2010. Interestingly, Mac OS X has only gone from 3.5% to 7.9%.”
I expect this trend to continue with Windows losing a bit more share next year. On top of that, I would be really interested to see the segmented results of what open source developers use as their primary development operating system versus normal developers. I mean, I can’t be the only one who hasn’t noticed that any conference you go to that features a lot of open source developers… you tend to see a lot of shiny Macs. It’s almost scandalous given how closed Apple is with everything.
The other nice trend I like is regarding version control systems.
“Git usage up from 2.4% (2009) to 6.8% (2010). Mercurial usage also increased from 1.1% to 3%. This growth seems to be coming from the decreased use of CVS, 20% (2009) to 12.6% (2010). Subversion continues to be the most popular at 58.3%.”
I expect to see DVCS continue to rise next year when the tooling becomes better and people become more knowledgeable about their VCS options (if you been living in a centralized VCS world for a long time, making the jump to a DVCS takes some time). I think the trend of large open source communities (e.g., Eclipse) using or moving to a DVCS will help the trend toward DVCS dominance. This aligns nicely with one of my goals is to make sure Eclipse.org is running fully on Git soon.
I highly recommend taking a full read through the survey.