Eclipse Helios is a release, but it’s also a complete development cycle in a global and distributed team of committers. Since I chose 3 features I especially liked in Helios this kept bugging me: what is Helios to me?
Helios will have its place in my memory — not the bits themselves but good things we had as a community.
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The Acceleo Community joins Eclipse.org and starts by using black magic to build bits
It’s just the beginning of this move but so far it went pretty well :)
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Eclipse Summit Europe is the best Eclipse conference to meet friends
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The dreaded diamonds of the Simultaneous Release are still haunting my dreams…
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Our friend Hudson is now serving way more projects, but not always happily.
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The Foundation keeps moving things forward
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EMF Compare rocked at Eclipse Con 2010
Last but not least, this Helios cycle was filled with more interactions with end-users and adopters leading to nice enhancements in Eclipse as a whole — thanks for your help!