The Rise and Fall and Rise of the CDT Project Lessons on Building Communities

The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Something... of the CDT Project The Never Ending Exercise on Building Communities

The Epic History of the CDT

The Epic History of the CDT in 15 minutes...

In the beginning... “The Eclipse Tools PMC is pleased to announce some exciting developments to the CDT project hosted on eclipse.org. First, QNX will be contributing some C/C++ core technology from their recently announced product to eclipse.org.”

The First CDT Summit – June 2002

Doug gets involved and makes a mess: The CDT Indexer

The CDT 2.0 Summit Thanks for coming. Can you commit to helping? Anyone? Anyone?

The first EclipseCon CDT BOF: OMG, people are standing in the hall, and what's with all these build systems...

“For the good of the project I'll put in my +1. Unfortunately, however, we are going to start losing developers that are working full time on the CDT starting August 1. “

CDT Summit III You know all those things you care about? well, no one is working on them...

It works, the CDT contributor community grows. Intel, Nokia, Freescale, Texas Instruments, Symbian, Google, Ericsson, Broadcom, QNX, IBM, Wind River

Doug's Words of “Wisdom”

Prepare to be frustrated

Wear two hats

Be vendor neutral, Leverage “co-opetition”

Asking for contributions isn't enough Create the need

Meet face to face, build relationships

None of your committers will be full time

Code like you won't be there tomorrow

Be needy, but not too needy

Forks are bad, But they can be good

“Can Eclipse Survive without IBM?”

“Don't ship a product on x.x.0, wait for x.x.1”

Communicate, Communicate, Communicate and be honest, build trust

And, BTW, a little dumb ass luck goes a long way

Thank you!