All,
Several years ago the Eclipse Foundation started allowing its
projects to host their day-to-day development at GitHub. As part of
that, we implemented several processes to ensure that Eclipse
projects could maintain their freedom of action should GitHub ever
go away, or dramatically alter their terms of service. A number of
the projects which host their development at GitHub subsequently
asked if they could also start using GitHub Issues, rather than
Bugzilla for tracking issues.
I am pleased to announce that at last week's Board meeting, the
Eclipse Foundation approved the following two resolutions:
Resolved,
that with PMC approval, the Board approves the use of GitHub
Issues for Eclipse projects which are hosted at GitHub. The EMO
is instructed to backup GitHub Issues data on eclipse.org server
infrastructure to ensure the future freedom of action of these
projects.
Resolved,
the EMO is instructed to provide instructions to Eclipse projects
hosted on GitHub on how to properly utilize GitHub features (e.g.
Release Pages) to remain compliant with the Eclipse project
branding requirements, Eclipse Development Process, and the
Eclipse IP Policy.
This does not mean that you can start using GitHub Issues
for your project right away. It does mean that the EMO has started
working on a plan to enable that, and we hope to do so soon. Please
follow bug
481771 if you are interested in progress on this.
Thanks,
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