Yesterday the GSoC team gave the green light to Google summer of code 2009. Yay :-) In case you don't know what GSoC is all about, you should read the program faq or join us in #eclipse-soc at irc.freenode.net.
To the rest of us, lets not waste time but …
With a bunch of breaking API changes ahead of me and no intention to get into CVS merge hell (using my own branch for the changes), I decided to give git a test spin. Others have blogged about it already and it appears as if the foundation is looking into …
Jan Rellermeyer and I are going to present ECF at the OSGi community event in Berlin. The talk is titled "Distributed OSGi Services with the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF)" and the abstract reads as follows:
The Eclipse Communication Framework will soon go into version 2.0, which will bring the …
Based on an idea by Chris, the ECF project wishes to compile a list of adopters to get a better feel for our community. In case you're one of them, please take a moment and add yourself to the list. Thanks!
Btw. to log into the wiki, one needs to …
A few weeks ago Mateusz Matela has been accepted as a GSoC Student to work on toString(). His app looked most promising and I'm convinced he'll complete the term successfully. And in case he stumbles, Mike Haller and I run to the rescue.
toString() generation is pretty basic functionality which …
Because of low numbers of student applications in general, the Google Summer of Code deadline has been extended until April 7th. However Eclipse to date has already received more than 100 student applications which is even more than last year. Surely we mentors have a stack of reading ahead of …
After yesterday's e4 talks/BoF, it is easy to get the impression, that e4 is all about bringing Eclipse to the web browser. Although I see the reason behind it (don't leave the web-app market to e.g. Google alone), it alone doesn't justify e4.
But what else could be …
As a follow up to a previous post, the non-restorable views feature has finally made it into HEAD >20080319 and will be in Ganymede starting with tomorrow's N-build. Thanks go out to PW for taking the time advising and solving the session test fw problem.
As mentioned earlier, Eclipse SoC will be part of Google Summer of Code in 2008 again. So it's time for you to write down your ideas/proposals. Afterwards you might wanna subscribe to the soc-dev mailing list, pay attention to the newsgroup or visit us in #eclipse-soc on freenode.
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