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Development Resources
Contents
Contributing To A Project
- Reporting Bugs. All Eclipse projects use Bugzilla to track bugs and features. Please read the Bug Reporting FAQ and then sign up for a bugzilla account to join in the fun.
Being A Committer
- Portal. The [1] is designed to be your single point of contact with the Foundation and to guide you through the various Foundation processes.
Managing A Project
- IP Log. The IP log is a big part of the official release process, so we encourage you to keep your IP log current rather than rushing at the end. The automatic IP log extracts most information from bugzilla and IPzilla, but it requires you to use the 'iplog+' flag.
IP Cleanliness
Your Project On The Eclipse.Org Website
- /projects - List of Projects. Your project is listed on the page automatically. MORE-EXPLANATION-TO-BE-ADDED
- Standard Project Summary. Your project has a standard format project summary page (e.g., [2]). MORE-EXPLANATION-TO-BE-ADDED
FAQs and Guidlines
HOWTOs and Help
This page is moderated/edited by Anne Jacko (Eclipse Foundation) and Bjorn Freeman-Benson (Eclipse Foundation)
Getting Answers
Eclipse uses mailing lists for development coordination, design discussions, voting, announcements etc.
News Groups are open to the whole community, and are open to a broader range of questions than mailing lists.
Asking questions on the IRC channels can be a quick way to get your questions answered, if the right person is online.
Getting Code
Links to Nightly, Milestone and Maintenance builds, plus release notes, performance results, and other Platform goodies.
We use the Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) to support concurrent distributed development, and we use Eclipse as our CVS client because it supports CVS directly.. All Eclipse development is carried out in this repository. The server supports both "extssh" and "pserver" type CVS connections - "pserver" only works for anonymous access.
We also have several projects that use Subversion to support concurrent distributed development. The server supports ssh and plain svn connections.
Browsing Code
Look here for a web-based view into CVS (Eclipse, Tools, Technology, WebTools, TPTP, Modeling, etc.), with the ability to compare versions of files & annotate a file to show what was changed by version.
Committing Code
Look here for the coding standards, naming conventions, and other guidelines we use to help ensure eclipse presents to users and developers as a unified whole rather than as a loose collection of parts.
Information on what legal documents to include with code and deliverable software
Other Resources
- Committer tools has moved to the Portal!
Eclipse committers must now use the Portal to change their eclipse.org password, to run some stats or to get general information about the eclipse.org infrastructure. Look for the tools in the Project Committer portal.