The Epic History of the CDT Project
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The document discusses the history of the CDT project from its beginnings within Eclipse to its growth into a large open source project with contributions from many companies. It started with QNX contributing some C/C++ core technology. Summits were held to get involvement from others. Over time, more and more companies like Intel, Nokia, and Google contributed to the project. Through communication and relationship building, the project was able to grow its community of contributors despite challenges.
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- 2. 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
- 3. The Epic History of the CDT
- 4. The Epic History of the CDT in 15 minutes...
- 5. 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.”
- 6. The First CDT Summit – June 2002
- 7. Doug gets involved and makes a mess: The CDT Indexer
- 8. The CDT 2.0 Summit Thanks for coming. Can you commit to helping? Anyone? Anyone?
- 9. The first EclipseCon CDT BOF: OMG, people are standing in the hall, and what's with all these build systems...
- 10. “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. “
- 11. CDT Summit III You know all those things you care about? well, no one is working on them...
- 12. It works, the CDT contributor community grows. Intel, Nokia, Freescale, Texas Instruments, Symbian, Google, Ericsson, Broadcom, QNX, IBM, Wind River
- 13. Doug's Words of “Wisdom”
- 14. Prepare to be frustrated
- 15. Wear two hats
- 16. Be vendor neutral, Leverage “co-opetition”
- 17. Asking for contributions isn't enough Create the need
- 18. Meet face to face, build relationships
- 19. None of your committers will be full time
- 20. Code like you won't be there tomorrow
- 21. Be needy, but not too needy
- 22. Forks are bad, But they can be good
- 23. “Can Eclipse Survive without IBM?”
- 24. “Don't ship a product on x.x.0, wait for x.x.1”
- 25. Communicate, Communicate, Communicate and be honest, build trust
- 26. And, BTW, a little dumb ass luck goes a long way
- 27. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- Welcome, I'm Doug Schaefer, the CDT Project Lead. I've been with the CDT project for almost seven years now.