At Twitter I have the fun job of running our open source office and I recently had the opportunity to present about one of our infrastructure projects (Mesos):
Thank you to the organizers at the Texas Linux Fest for hosting a great event and I look forward to it growing more next year.
After some legal issues with the initial name, the name of the Luna+1 release will be called Mars.
Mars is a fine name and also great planet. Thank you to everyone who voted and participated in the process. We at the Eclipse Planning Council appreciate your patience.
There’s been a couple of interesting milestones recently at the Eclipse Foundation. A few weeks ago, the Eclipse Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary and even refreshed its logo. The most interesting part of the anniversary is that Eclipse is more than just a community around an extensible IDE, it’s a place to foster open industry collaboration to develop new open platforms. There are now Working Groups that span industries from automative, to location area technologies to the internet of things.
It’s also great to see Benjamin Cabé join the Eclipse Foundation to grow interest around the iot.eclipse.org technology stack. At the board, I wanted to see the Eclipse Foundation hire another evangelist for many years now, it’s nice to see that finally happen!
Also, related to that, it’s Eclipse Board election time! I have the honor to run again along with a set of great candidates.
You can read my position statement and reach out to me over email or via @cra at anytime if you have questions. I’m proud of what we have accomplished over the last few years and would be honored to continue to represent committers.
If you haven’t received an email with the subject “Eclipse Board Elections 2014” and you’re a eclipse.org committer, reach out to EMO@eclipse.org to ensure you have voting privileges. We could always use a greater turn out of committers voting, it takes no more than a few minutes to do and you have a chance to influence the direction of the Eclipse Foundation.
Happy voting!
I had a great time visiting Edinburgh, Scotland this week.
A stroll through Edinburgh pic.twitter.com/4KebmafYiO
— Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) October 20, 2013
I’m thankful to have the opportunity to keynote at LinuxCon Europe 2013.
Chris Aniszczyk: Twitter is of course all running on Linux, why would you need anything else? #linuxcon pic.twitter.com/ZiRrLzfBVL
— The Linux Foundation (@linuxfoundation) October 21, 2013
I took the time to talk about the evolution of the Twitter Stack over the years and how we moved to the JVM. I also discussed the importance of open source in that transition and how we give back since participating in open source isn’t a zero sum game.
It was definitely fun!
It’s great to finally see a book out there on Gerrit Code Review. First off, it’s amazing that the cover features the Gerrit mascot which is the kung fu review cuckoo…
As some of you may know, I’m a huge fan of Gerrit and was involved with enabling it for Eclipse Foundation projects as part of our great Git migration. I also shamelessly support pretty much anything else that embeds JGit.
Anyways, I spent some time last weekend going through the book and I found it did a great job introducing Gerrit while taking care of basic setup gotchas. If you’re interested in using Gerrit at the Eclipse Foundation (or else where) and have no idea what the hubbub is about, I highly recommend checking the book out. As an advanced Gerrit user, I found the Appendix sections on working with GitHub (Gerrit supports replication) and integration with Jenkins (or Hudson) well done. As a bonus, I also learned about GerritHub which I had no idea existed.
In my opinion, the main downside of the book is that it didn’t cover an advanced Gerrit feature regarding tweaking submit rules with Prolog (which could always use more documentation), however, you can check out the online docs for some solid examples.
In the end, it’s always good to support authors who take the time to write about open source technology. Check the book out!
The JGit and EGit teams are happy to announce the 2.3.1 release.
What’s new? I recommend checking out the JGit New and Noteworthy along with the EGit New and Noteworthy documents. The team is excited to get a new version ready for the Juno SR2 release. The release tag is: 2.3.1.201302201838-r
You can download the latest release using this repository (or the Eclipse Marketplace):Â http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-2.3
Enjoy and the next release will be in time for Kepler in June 2013. I personally look forward to recursive merge support soon (see bug 380314).
There will be an Eclipse Simultaneous Release on the fourth Wednesday of June 2014. We just started the poll for potential release names (see bug 398191) based on eclipse.org community feedback. The potential names are:
Note that this community poll will be used to pick top choice. We may have a series of run-off polls with voting until majority consensus achieved. The poll will be opened for a week and then I expect the final decision on the name will be made by Feb 15th at the latest (after Eclipse Legal approval is finalized).
Go vote and be heard!
It’s that time of year again, time to name the next Eclipse release. The Eclipse Kepler release will happen on June 26, 2013, but after that, we’ll need a new name for the following release (because calling the next release Kepler+1 gets awkward over time). The naming responsibilities traditionally fall to the Eclipse Planning Council and preference will be given to names that start with “L”, but no strict rule that other names would not be considered. On top of that, preference is given to names that fit the moon, heavenly body gods, or scientists themes we’ve had in the past years.
To add your name to the list of possible names, see bug 398191. Here’s an initial list of names to get your creative juices flowing:
Have fun, the bugzilla entry will remain open until January 22nd to gather suggestions for potential names. After that, a community poll will be used to pick top choice. We may have a series of run-off polls until a majority vote is achieved. The poll should be opened on January 22nd with a week of voting allowed. The final decision on the name will be made by Feb 15th at the latest, maybe earlier depending how quickly final Legal approval is.
Since it’s getting close to the end of the year, I’ve been working on generating some “year in review” reports for company related open source activity. As part of this effort, I stumbled across the GitHub Archive project by @igrigorik.
Essentially, it allows you to query the GitHub timeline (note: timeline data is available starting February 12, 2011). As an added convenience, the data is also available on Google BigQuery via a public dataset to make it easy to try out a few queries before downloading all the archive data locally. A couple downsides to Google BigQuery are that  the user interface is a bit clunky and there are query quotas in place (unless you sign up for the service), other than that it’s pretty straightforward to use.
Of course I got distracted from my initial task and started to search for profanity usage across the GitHub timeline in 2012. I mean, who isn’t interested in seeing how many instances of the seven dirty words they can find across the GitHub timeline? It all starts with a simple query (see the gist).
How many instances did I come across?
37,674 as of today (also posted a CSV online).
Here are some of my favorites:
After this distraction, I was happy add the new word “refuckulate” to my lexicon.
Enjoy grokking the GitHub Archive, I highly recommend it!
Update: Mike Milinkovich has a great post on this topic too!
The countdown is finally over…
Shutting down CVS in T-1 minutes. Makes perfect sense. Despite what Husker Du might think youtube.com/watch?v=J1sYN0…
— Wayne Beaton (@waynebeaton) December 21, 2012
Over 80% of the projects at the Eclipse Foundation are finally on Git and CVS access is switched to be read only. I believe the projects left on SVN will migrate soon enough, there are just too many advantages with using Git.
One interesting bit of history regarding this migration to Git is it all started back in 2009 when some community and Eclipse Foundation board members wanted to have Git, JGit and EGit all at Eclipse. You may not believe it, but at that time, moving to Git was a bit controversial. I dug up a old Google doc that we had discussing the pros and cons of moving to Git (prepping a presentation for the Board), this is what we had for benefits:
An entertaining part of this analysis was the mention of GitHub becoming a high traffic site in 2009… GitHub recently posted some stats so we have an idea of what life was like in 2009 compared to now…
How times change.
