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Development Resources/Committer Bootcamp

Are you a new committer or project lead for an Eclipse, LocationTech, or PolarSys project? Are you thinking about proposing a new open source project? In this tutorial, Eclipse Foundation staff members will walk you through the information that you need to know to be an effective open source project committer. The discussion includes an overview of the Eclipse Development Process, the Intellectual Property Due Diligence Process, and the Tools and IT Infrastructure made available to open projects by the Eclipse Foundation.

Agenda

The Eclipse Development Process

Intellectual Property Due Diligence

Resources and Provisioning

  • Overview of Infrastructure
  • Your Eclipse Foundation account, committer ID, other forges
  • Project provisioning process
  • Initial contribution, tools for committers: Git, Gerrit, Bugzilla, Wiki, project website
  • Interacting with your users: Forums, mailing lists
  • Asking for help: webmasters, other committers

Managing Your Eclipse Project

Managing Intellectual Property

Downloads, Builds

  • CBI, Hudson/HIPP and producing a build
  • Signing
  • Where to store build artifacts, linking, using mirrors
  • Download statistics
  • Cleaning up

Appendices

Starting a New Open Source Project


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