Eclipse Project PMC

Who's running this project?

This page lists the people that are currently playing the PMC and subproject leadership roles described in the project charter. You will notice that there are many IBM people listed... it's not because we want to do all the work (believe us!) - its just because we built the first release of Eclipse before it became an open source project, and others haven't had enough time yet to get involved in key roles. We welcome new people who want to get involved and can make a contribution. The Eclipse Project is a meritocracy. The more you contribute the more responsibility you will earn.

We ask that you do not email us directly. Instead - use the mailing lists. Mailing lists have been set up for each area of work, and are the best way to get involved.

The Eclipse Project is managed by a small group known as the Eclipse Project Management Committee (PMC). The work of the project is organized into subprojects. Each subproject has a leader who has overall responsibility for its success. Large subprojects are further divided into component teams, each of who has a leader that is responsible for its overall success. We have listed just the PMC and subproject leaders here but you will encounter many dedicated Eclipse Project committers and developers in the newsgroup and mailing lists.

Project Management Committee Members

  • Mike ("McQ") Wilson, IBM Ottawa
    McQ is the overall lead for the Eclipse Project aka PMC Lead. He is a senior architect of the Eclipse SDK, a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council and one of the original Eclipse Founders. His interests include computer language design and implementation, semantic content publishing, web development, and playing the cello. Mike leads the Platform and e4 subprojects.
  • Martin Oberhuber, Wind River
    Martin is on the PMC representing the Community aspect of Eclipse and the e4 project. He is a Platform Core Resources and e4 committer, co-leading the e4 Resources work. Martin also serves on the DSDP PMC and as Target Management Project lead, and revitalized the Eclipse Architecture Council as its chair. His interests include programming languages, patterns and paradigms, optimizing development processes, skiing, hiking, and playing all sorts of musical instruments.
  • Dani Megert, IBM Zurich
    Dani leads the JDT subproject and represents the project in the Eclipse Planning Council. Dani worked at OTI and is one of the initial Eclipse Project committers. His interests include user interface and API design, editors, performance and DJing.
  • John Arthorne, IBM Ottawa
    John has worked on the Eclipse and Equinox projects for the past decade in many different areas. He was the main developer on the resource model for many years, and designed the platform's concurrency infrastructure. In recent years he has focused on the Orion project, provisioning (p2), e4, and overall platform API quality. John is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council and the Eclipse Board of Directors. John has authored numerous articles and a book on Eclipse.
  • Andrew Overholt, Mozilla
    Andrew works on open source technologies at Mozilla in Toronto. He has been involved with the Eclipse community since 2005 and is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. Andrew also leads the Linux Tools project. He is very interested in continuing to grow the Eclipse community and to improve native platform integration.

Past PMC members

The following are Eclipse Project PMC Emeriti:
  • Erich Gamma
    Erich is the original lead of the Eclipse Java development environment. Prior to working on Eclipse he contributed to VA/Micro Edition (part of IBM's Java solution for embedded device programming). Erich is well known for his work on Design Patterns and JUnit.
  • Kevin Haaland
    Kevin was a key contributor to the design and implementation of the Platform UI. He was previously component lead for the Platform UI, and has a long history of building user interface technology at OTI. In a past life he was the lead for the SWT team. Kevin also played a key role in the IBM VA/Java project.
  • Jeff McAffer
    Jeff McAffer co-led the RT Equinox project and is the Founder of Code 9. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley). Previous lives include being a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and work in distributed/parallel OO computing (Server Smalltalk, massively parallel Smalltalk, etc) as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a PhD at the University of Tokyo.
  • Philippe Mulet
    Philippe is a former PMC and JDT project lead. Prior to Eclipse, Philippe was responsible for the compiler and codeassist in IBM VA/Java and VA/Micro Edition. Philippe was a member of the expert group on compiler API (JSR199), representing IBM. His main interests are in compilation, performance, scalability and meta-level architectures.
  • Steve Northover
    Steve Northover is the father of SWT (the Standard Widget Toolkit). Prior to working on Eclipse, he worked on IBM Smalltalk, VA/Java, VA/Micro Edition. His interests include programming languages, API design, operating systems, user intefaces and code optimization.
  • John Wiegand
    John was a principal architect for the platform infrastructure. John played a central role in the development of IBM VA/Java, VA/Micro Edition, and Eclipse. His interests are in the areas of performance, scalability, compilers, and just about anything that's hard.
Subproject Leads