Eclipse Governance Blog

Short takes on matters of Eclipse open source project governance, including the Eclipse Foundation Development Process, the Eclipse Foundation Intellectual Property Policy and Due Diligence Process, the Eclipse Foundation Security Policy, and more.

Thursday, Feb 26, 2026

Private Channels

Private channels are an anti-pattern in open source.

Friday, Oct 31, 2025

Contributing a Git Repository

It is completely reasonable/normal for a contributor to offer to contribute an entire Git repository to an Eclipse open source project. It is also completely reasonable/normal to elect some subset of the maintainers of that repository as new committers.