Galileo: delivering the next major release

Markus Knauer (EclipseSource), Richard Gronback

Eclipse Ecosystem - Other · Long - one hour
Tuesday, 16:30, 50 minutes | Room 206

Markus Knauer

Richard Gronback

Each year's release train presents an opportunity to improve the delivery of many Eclipse projects to the community. This talk will cover the following topics related to the delivery of Galileo, from the perspective of two Planning Council members:

Determining the quality requirements for Galileo
How Galileo is assembled using models and p2
What's new in the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP) for Galileo, including the new EPP Wizard
About the Usage Data Collector (UDC)

Markus Knauer works as an Eclipse developer and consultant at EclipseSource. He is involved in the development of the Yoxos Eclipse Distribution and is working on multiple projects developing Eclipse-based SDKs.
Markus is project lead of the Eclipse Packaging Project and creates all those packages that can be downloaded from the Eclipse Foundation website. He is co-lead of the g-Eclipse project which is building a framework to enable developers to work easily in a Grid Computing or Cloud Computing environment, and is a member of the Eclipse Planning Council and the Eclipse Architecture Council.

Richard Gronback is chief scientist for modeling products at Borland Software Corporation, managing both open source and commercial product development. Richard represents Borland on the Eclipse Board of Directors, Planning and Architecture Councils, co-leads the Modeling project Project Management Committee (PMC). Richard leads the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) and Amalgam projects, and is the author of the book, "Eclipse Modeling Project: A Domain-Specific Language Toolkit." Richard holds a BSE in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and was a reactor operator in the U.S. Navy prior to his current career in software.