Hi Steven,

There's no such thing as a "Gold partner", however Oracle is already a
Strategic Developer member of the Eclipse Foundation, meaning they pay
annual dues of $250,000 and pay 8 or more full time developers to work
on Eclipse projects.

Regards,
Neil.

On May 9, 9:58 am, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wonder if it'll be joined by Oracle becoming a Gold partner with the
> Eclipse Foundation or the like?
>
> On May 7, 5:34 am, Kirk <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I need to re-read the announcement then.
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> > Kirk
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> > On May 6, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Neil Bartlett wrote:
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> > >> ...
> > >> It's just funny that Jenkins splits from Hudson because Oracle 
> > >> miscommunicates with the community and then Oracle dumps it into the EF 
> > >> with no visible consultation with the what was left of the community....
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> > > They haven't done anything, yet. They've *proposed* to donate it...
> > > nothing will actually happen for months. So, this IS the consultation
> > > with the community.
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> > > Neil
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> > >> On May 6, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Neil Bartlett wrote:
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> > >>>> I'm just scratching my head trying to figure out why the Eclipse 
> > >>>> Foundation would be considered a good landing spot for a project that 
> > >>>> is very far away from all of the other projects there.
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> > >>> Well then Kirk, look again at the projects that are currently hosted
> > >>> at Eclipse. Hudson will fit in very well... especially once it runs on
> > >>> top of OSGi (Equinox), uses embedded Jetty (also Eclipse project) and
> > >>> it integrates with Mylyn (Eclipse project) and JGit/EGit (both Eclipse
> > >>> projects).
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> > >>> Cheers,
> > >>> Neil
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> > >>> The only thing I can come up with is that they are hoping to piggyback
> > >>> on the success of the Eclipse IDE. It all seems like a reaction to
> > >>> Jenkins.
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> > >>>> Regards,
> > >>>> Kirk
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> > >>>> On May 5, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Phil wrote:
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> > >>>>> I caught this earlier today. I hope it is viewed as a positive move,
> > >>>>> not least because Oracle have in effect agreed, eventually, with those
> > >>>>> who created Jenkins. Ideally this would be the beginning of a
> > >>>>> reconciliation and 'join'.
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