Many of
us here at Google, along with the open source community, use the
Eclipse IDE when we develop for
Android,
App
Engine, and
Google
Chrome. We also have a lot of Google engineers that use Eclipse to build our own
internal products. So, when the Eclipse Foundation approached us with an idea to encourage the
Eclipse ecosystem, we were very happy to help.
Today, we’re excited to
announce the result of our collaboration: a Beta version of Eclipse Labs powered by
Google Project Hosting, a single
place where anyone can start and maintain their open source projects based on the Eclipse
platform with just a few clicks.
The goal of Eclipse Labs is to improve
the visibility of unofficial add-on projects. We hope that this will help Eclipse users find
those projects quickly and that it will help popular projects get on the path to becoming
Eclipse Foundation projects. For
more information, see the Eclipse Foundation’s
blog
post.
To get this community started, we’re eager to seed
Eclipse Labs with
Eclipse add-on projects
currently on Google Code. If you have an add-on for Eclipse that you would like to
move to Eclipse Labs from Google Code, please let us know by filing a
migration
request.
Here are a few projects that have already
migrated:
Let us know what you think in our
developer forum and if
you’re attending Google I/O, be sure to drop by the
Developer Sandbox
for Eclipse or visit the Google Project Hosting team during
office hours.
By Ali Pasha, Product Manager, Google
Project Hosting
