Scripting Eclipse

As many of you may know, I've started a new initiative to get scripting support back home to Eclipse.org and unify the fragmented landscape a bit.

Our BoF session at EclipseCon 2012 was pretty well attended. Have a look at our new homepage and eclipse-scripting-dev mailing list if you are interested !

Help ! Where can I get a deck of Planning Poker cards in Reston, VA ?

Hi all,

I'm in urgent need for one or two decks of Planning Poker cards (to purchase and use tomorrow after EclipseCon). With lots of Agile folk here at EclipseCon, maybe somebody could help me out ?

Ping me by comment on this blog if you have an idea...

Thanks!

Eclipse Scripting BoF

Interested in making it easy to customize Eclipse, adding simple menus or buttons for repetitive tasks without having to code any Java ?
Ever wondered what happened to Scripting initiatives such as Eclipse Monkey, Groovy Monkey, Eclipse Command Shell and others ?
Wondering why Eclipse just doesn't provide editor macros?

Join us for a BoF on Eclipse Scripting here at EclipseCon 2012 - Wed 7.30pm at Regency Ballroom B.

We'll want to collect what approaches to scripting currently exist, why none of them didn't really gain traction so far and what we could possibly do to align and unify.

Call for participation: TM 3.1m5 test pass on 2-Feb-2009

As you're probably aware, the upcoming M5 build of the Eclipse Galileo Train projects is what's going to go on a USB key for EclipseCon. The Target Management / RSE team therefore invites all interested parties to do a test pass on the TM 3.1m5 candidate on Monday, Feb. 2 2009.

Why should you join?

• If you use TM as a dependency for your offering, you may want to check that the stuff you need works in m5!
  

What can you do?

• Just try out the stuff that you'd like to work fine, and file a bug if it doesn't. We'll provide a bug reporting template for you, so it's super fast and easy to participate.
  

How long will it take you?

• If you've just got 1 hour for downloading, installing and trying it out that's a very valuable input for us already. Of course you're free to report enhancement requests as well!
  

Any additional information like the test candidate to download, bug reporting template, and other information will be on the Eclipse Wiki. For any other questions, please contact us on the TM mailing list.

Lastest update (1-Feb): Test downloads have been provided, instructions are updated. Thanks for joining the public test!

Graphical Skills for BugDay requested

I just marked bug 238574 for BugDay (July 25 this month) -- but it's a kind of untypical bug: It's asking for a cool Photoshopped screenshot of RSE to make our website look more sexy.

The bug has been open for a while now, and it looks like we don't have any committers with sufficient skills in image processing software to address it. So, any help from the Community is appreciated! We can offer a prominent place on the TM Website for your works.

All details, examples of what we'd like to see as well as some source material (existing screenshot) are on the bug. First come, first serve -- although we can also make a contest in case multiple proposals are attached...

BugDay is today

Once again it's the last Friday of the month, so it's Eclipse BugDay time! Come take a little time helping us committers bring down our vast backlogs of small but annoying, supposedly easy-to-fix issues.

Developers like us from the Target Management project have marked such bugs with a "bugday" keyword, prepared FAQ and Contributor Reference, and will be hanging out on IRC channel #eclipse-bugs to get in touch with you personally in case any questions come up. For more info, see the BugDay FAQ.

We still take contributions for Ganymede, want to join the Hall of Fame? See you on IRC!

PDE Goodies: Fix configuration problems

Ever thought you had some plugin installed, but couldn't find it working in Eclipse? - Here is a really nice solution that I found today:

• Window > Show View > PDE Runtime > Plug-in Registry
• Filter to show the Plug-in(s) in question
• Right-click > Show Advanced Operations
• Choose "Diagnose"

In my case, the dialog that this produced showed me that "Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: J2SE-1.6" had not been met by my configuration. That would have taken me ages to find out!

I'm not sure since when this functionality is available (I was running 3.4RC2), but a big THANKS goes to the PDE team for this (and I assume that Chris Recoskie will be especially happy about this).