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<name>Max Rydahl Andersen</name> | |
<title>Consulting Engineer at Red Hat</title> | |
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<email>manderse@redhat.com</email> | |
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M2E-WTP committer, retired Dali committer | |
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<p>Eclipse has been around for 10+ years. It gained its fame by | |
providing an IDE that was not only just open source but heaps | |
and bounds better than at the time competition.</p> | |
<p>Over the years the Eclipse IDE gained massive momentum and | |
from that the Eclipse Community has grown stronger and larger and | |
into other areas than just the IDE.</p> | |
<p>This Eclipse Community which goes beyond the IDE is doing very | |
well and I think Eclipse is gaining a very strong presence | |
and has a bright future to be a home for building open source | |
ecosystems.</p> | |
<p>But the Eclipse IDE work is stagnating.</p> | |
<p>Today, many commercial and open source vendors base their own IDE | |
on the tooling ecosystem provided by the efforts done at | |
Eclipse - but they tend to more and more build on top of | |
the IDE; they do not contribute directly to maintain and | |
keep the Eclipse IDE competitive or even simply just | |
alive. Some are not aware that they can or should contribute, | |
some try but get met with a deafening silence or overwhelming | |
amout of work to make their contribution happen.</p> | |
<p>If this trend continues the Eclipse IDE will not survive.</p> | |
<p>There are ongoing work at Eclipse to make a new IDE - | |
an IDE that is built on webbased technology (the Orion | |
project), but it will take years with the current speed | |
before it will reach the level of maturity Eclipse had 10 | |
years ago.</p> | |
<p>That said the IT industry is moving towards | |
heterogeneous development environments. My belief is that both the traditional desktop based IDE and | |
the upcoming web/html5/cloud based IDE's will play a part for | |
many years going forward. Hopefully in a way that makes these | |
play well together.</p> | |
<p>Unfortunately getting contributions and work on these IDE's | |
are a challenge.</p> | |
<p>I believe there are many past and future contributions that | |
are being held back because resources have moved away from | |
Eclipse IDE projects to other projects.</p> | |
<p>We need to bridge these gaps of resources.</p> | |
<p>Based on those observations, my focus on the board will be | |
on:</p> | |
<p> a) working on finding a way to get the companies and individuals that | |
already have invested in Eclipse IDE to understand the importance of contributing to the Eclipse | |
IDE platform.</p> | |
<p>b) Remove the technical and organizational barriers in | |
projects that prevent contributions from making it into Eclipse.</p> | |
<p>c) encourage and support projects that help build bridges between the | |
Eclipse IDE, Orion and other IDE's </p> | |
<p>d) work on identifying projects or pieces of projects that | |
could be dropped or changed to reduce complexity and make other | |
contributions possible.</p> | |
<p>In short - keep the tooling platforms that have been built | |
and will be built at Eclipse.org alive and viable for years to come.</p> | |
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<bio> <![CDATA[Max Rydahl Andersen is leading the development | |
of JBoss Tools and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio and have | |
several years working with Eclipse from both outside and | |
inside of eclipse.org. His main interests for Eclipse.org is | |
to keep the Eclipse IDE a viable platform for building desktop | |
based tooling while also getting involved in offering a | |
complementary cloud | |
and web-based tooling offering. | |
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Red Hat | |
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