A year of my contribution into EGit

Few days ago (exactly 2010-03-16) was a first anniversary of my first contribution into EGit project. Here is my very simple first patch sent into EGit’s Gerrit. It only replaces some old type loops with for-each loop, this is how it starts … Then I implement a tagging dialog, after that Google Summer of Code 2010 comes during with I was implementing Synchronization View support … and so on.

Now when I’m looking on my ohloh account I’m quite surprised with my contribution size. Currently it shows 127 commits and almost 18000 code lines changed. For me those statistics are something that I can be proud of 😉

We’ll see what next year will bring ;>

Eclipse Community Awards 2011

This was a very successful day for EGit team and me at EclipseCon. Its starts from very successful tutorial on EGit by Chris Aniszczyk, Matthias Sohn, Shawn Pearce and Stefan Lay. I think that this was largest simultaneous EGit testing that we ever had ;). Some bugs ware found during this tutorial and we (as a EGit developer team) get the most important thing … a users’ feedback! and we are looking forward for more opinions and hints from you about EGit ;>. Some of the effects of the EGit tutorial can be seen in ours’ gerrit instance 😉

Few hours after EGit Tutorial the results of Eclipse Community Award 2011 were announced … and guess what? The EGit project won in category ‘Most Innovative New Feature or Project’! This is a great success for me and others EGit developers and it is a huge motivation for continue working and improving EGit.

As you might know, I was nominated in ‘Top Contributor’ category, and if you looks carefully on the left hand side picture of ‘Eclipse Community Award’ statue you might notice that there is my name on it … yes I’m a ‘Top Contributor’ in 2011. This whole history with Eclipse Community Awards was a huge surprise for me, starting from nomination, ending on a moment when I was keeping this statue in my hands. I want to thank everyone for voting on EGit project and me in Eclipse Community Awards. Also I want to encourage every Eclipse committer to participate in Google Summer of Code as a menthor … who knows maybe yours feature GSoC student will also be in feature nominated in Eclipse Community Awards … you only need to give him a chance 😉

Apart form that, big thanks to Google and Eclipse Foundation for giving me opportunity to participate in EclipseCon. Without theirs support I can only dream about participating in EclipseCon. Once again, thank Google!, thank Eclipse Foundation! 😉

BTW. Any one flying Friday morning from San Jose to Dallas (AA1252) ? ;>

I’m going on 33rd Degree Conference

The 33rd Degree is another conference in English in Poland, next to GeeCON. This year both conferences are located in Krakow.

For me choosing between GeeCON (with I was attending two times) and 33rd degree wasn’t so easy. Finally, as you can see, I’ve decided to go on 33rd Degree (same as my collages from NCDC). There was two main reasons why I’ve made such decision. First of all 33rd Degree has more lectures (there are 4 parallel tracks) and I find most of them interesting for me. Lucky the lectures I want to attend doesn’t overlap currently and I hope that this would not change ;). Secondly, as I mentioned before I was on GeeCON already I and know what can I suspect from it, the 33rd is something new I and want to give it a try 😉

So, see you on 33rd Degree! 😉

I’m nominated for Top Contributor in 2011 Eclipse Awards

To be honest I haven’t been fallowing anything connected with Eclipse Community Awards, because I was thinking that this isn’t for me as em I a humble EGit commiter. But is seams that some one has different opinion on this, because I was nominated …

You can imagine my surprise when I got an email with information that I’m nominated for Top Contributor. I was totally shock! and can’t believe in this. But then I check Eclipse Community Awards Bulletin and I saw my name on the list of nominated contributors … I believed that this it is true.

I’m honored, I’m truly honored, no mater what the final results would be I’m honored with this nomination!

Finally I want to encourage you to take part in voting for Eclipse Community Awards, especially I encourage to vote on EGit project with was nominated in category: Most Innovative New Feature or Eclipse Project 😉

Show non-workspace resources in Git Change Set

Synchronize view in EGit doesn’t show non-workspace files from its very beginning. This issue seams to be very complicated and also it seams to require lots of hacking on team framework and eclipse API.

Few days ago Ilya Ivanov from Intland pushed into our gerrit a patch that should fix this issue. I was very surprised that this change is so small and simple. It only works partially because the compare editor cannot be launched for non-workspace files. In my opinion this patch cannot be merge into master branch without this core functionality, so today I spent about 3 or 4 hours hacking on that topic … and here are results:

As you can see, there is master pom file (with isn’t imported into eclipse workspace) in synchronize view and on the left hand side there is a compare editor for it, showing what was changed ;>

Currently both patches are waiting for review in gerrit, but I think that they will be merged into master soon 😉