Eclipse platform news and how to contribute to the project

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Lars VogelEclipse committerEclipse committer(Platform, e4)(Platform, e4)vogella GmbH CEO and developervogella GmbH CEO and developer

Hendrik StillEclipse contributorEclipse contributor

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What is the Eclipse platform project?

Platform

What is the Eclipse platform project?

UI toolkit, Services, Runtime, IDE configuration,etc

Most important change in Eclipse 4.4

Java 8 support

OK, this was done by the JDT developers, but we

also did something in Eclipse 4.4...

Famous Spring Developer Oliver Gierke

I don't use Eclipse 4.xbecause it is ugly

A beautiful UI

Toolbar can be hidden

QuickAccess can be hidden

PerspectiveSwitcher can be hidden

Less whitespace usage

Line numbers

DnD color

Improve default styling (colors)

New Splashscreen and logo

Removed annoying splash screen message

Major improvements in CSSNew icon set

Dark theme

Split editor

Most requested feature since 2002. See Bug 8009 for hate

comments

Filter box in installing updates in not dead slow

anymore....

In general we improved interactive performance

Build the Eclipse IDE

git clone -b master --recursive git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator.git

# run the buildmvn clean verify

See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372792 for the involved work

Clean-up of the old code basis

We would like to be less scary for developers

I would like

to help

Other reasons to contribute

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Learn cool new things Your business depends on new functions

Open a Bughttps://bugs.eclipse.org/

Submit Code!!!

Two options

Realworld Process

Bugzilla Gerrit Review

OfficialGit

Repository

Let's start !

You need aCLA

http://www.eclipse.org/legal/CLA.php

Let's start !

Demo

To read about it

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePlatformDevelopment/article.html Eclipse IDE Contributions

Soon to be published, watch @vogella or http://blog.vogella.com

https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.platform/who

Currently > 50 % of the changes are done by 6 people

The future looks brightSWT on OpenGLSWT on JavaFX

SWT GTK3 running the browser

http://akurtakov.blogspot.de/2013/09/full-featured-ide-in-your-browser-and.html

Full screen Eclipse

.....Much, much more code clean-up

New tail code completion

Bachlor Work from Nice Höss at www.fhv.at

Parallel processing in Jobs

With the help of our Google friends

First measurements show that search might be 5-10x faster

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=432049

The future looks brighter

Flux from Martin Lippert – at 14:30

To close

Contributing was hard in the past. We are sorry, the fix

is almost done...

Where to go from here

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePlatformDevelopment/article.html Eclipse IDE Contributions

http://www.vogella.com/articles/Git/article.html Git tutorial

http://www.vogella.com/articles/Gerrit/article.html Gerrit tutorial

http://www.vogella.com/articles/EGit/article.html EGit tutorial

http://wiki.eclipse.org/CBI Eclipse IDE CBI Build

http://www.vogella.com/articles/EclipseTycho/article.html EclipseTycho tutorial

http://www.voclipse.com/ voclipse (custom) IDE build

Thank you

For further questions:

lars.vogel@vogella.com &hendrik.still@vogella.comhttp://www.vogella.com