How to become an Eclipse committer in 20 minutes and to fork the Eclipse IDE

Lars VogelEclipse committer

Eclipse and Android developer

Company founder

Java Champion

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First

lets b

ecome

a comm

itter

Then f

ork th

e Ecli

pse ID

E

Tradionally the Eclipse

programming model made it

easy to add something on top of Eclipse.

But what about changing the Eclipse IDE or

framework?

New developers

It is Open Source, how hard can it be?

This is really hard.

I use IntelliJ

because Eclipse sucks

I hope someone fixes this

bug because it

is really bad.... for

me

A new age

GitTycho CBIGerrit

Eclipse source

http://git.eclipse.org

Search box

Git clone

git clone git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/e4/org.eclipse.e4.tools.git

You fix and you commit

(locally)

Now you are

a committer

But, your patch or Gerrit request never

gets reviewed...

All right, I go and help Debian in this case..

I use IntelliJ

because Eclipse sucks

Or you can...

Fork you!

Yeah!

Eclipse Tycho

Repository

Plug-ins

Modules to build

Component pom.xml

mvn -clean install

Target

Lets start small

I build the e4 tools

Reality

# Clone the releng repogit clone git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/e4/org.eclipse.e4.releng.git# Install the CBI build configurationmvn -f org.eclipse.e4.releng/cbi/eclipse-parent/pom.xml clean install

git clone git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/e4/org.eclipse.e4.tools.git

mvn -clean install

Simplification in its making

Bug 386114 - Avoid duplication of id and version in pom.xml and MANIFEST

Bug 403237 - o.e.e4.tools cannot be build with "mvn clean install"

Bug 361722 - [patch] Unable to install root level features into product install

Build your own Eclipse IDE

All the cool kids are forking

Eclipse these days

Build Eclipse IDE# clonegit clone -b master --recurse-submodules \git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator.git

git fetch origingit merge origin/mastergit pull --recurse-submodulesgit submodule update

# fix manifest.mf to pom.xml versionscd eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/mvn -Dtycho.mode=maven -Dmaven.repo.local=${WORKSPACE}/.repository org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-versions-plugin:update-pom

# buildmvn clean install -Pno-bree-libs -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Your own Eclipse IDE build

Apply modification

Clone the corresponding repoCreate new repo at Github

Push your changes to Github and merge them everytime before the

build

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Where to go from here

http://wiki.eclipse.org/CBI Eclipse IDE CBI Build

http://www.vogella.com/articles/Git/article.html Git tutorial

http://www.vogella.com/articles/EGit/article.html EGit tutorial

http://www.vogella.com/articles/EclipseTycho/article.html EclipseTycho tutorial

For fhe love of Pete!I fix this bug!

Thank you

For further questions:

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