Eclipse Helios is a release, but it's also a complete development cycle in a global and
distributed team of commiters. Since I choose 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.
1 - The Acceleo Community joins Eclipse.org and starts by using black magic to build bits
![](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_u5tMWln_Ie8/TE7e3tid-UI/AAAAAAAAAVo/jqZuuaSXZfs/s320/slides-7.png)
2 - Eclipse Summit Europe is the best Eclipse conference
to meet friends
3- The dreaded diamonds of the Simultaneous Release are still haunting my dreams...
![](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u5tMWln_Ie8/TE7h0CtYxpI/AAAAAAAAAVw/INgqIltP0Ww/s400/diamonds.png)
4- Our friend Hudson is now serving way more projects, but not always happily.
![](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u5tMWln_Ie8/TE7igFeOPSI/AAAAAAAAAV4/7khFDonGUUA/s320/hudson.png)
5 - The Foundation keeps moving things forward
![](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u5tMWln_Ie8/TE7lTNChcaI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/P9fxtY1_ZcE/s320/git.png)
6 - 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 !