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Benjamin Muskalla: Top Contributor Nominee

At 1:49 AM on Feb 13, 2007, Daniel Spiewak wrote:

Benjamin Muskalla (Germany) has been nominated for the Eclipse Top Contributor Award . EclipseZone asked him a little about himself:

How did you first get involved with Eclipse, and how long ago?

I had my first experiences with Eclipse about 2 and a half year ago, primely as platform for developing web applications. After struggeling around with some minor bugs, I started contributing patches to eclipse in the middle of 2006.

What Eclipse-related projects are you working on and what are you doing?

Most of the time I contribute patches to Platform/UI (greetings to Kim&Paul) and try to involve myself more in the XML editor of WST. In the next time, I'll also provide some help to the Linux Distros project.

What's your favourite Eclipse feature that you've added?

It's definitely the ability to open files with any available editor (see bug 29633) which will be available in Eclipse 3.3M5.

What's your favourite feature/plugin (commercial or open source)?

Eclipse itself No, i think there are two projects which are my favorites: Mylar and RAP.

What OSes do you do development on?

Gentoo Linux on all of my machines.

Are you attending EclipseCon or giving a talk this year?

No talk - but I really hope that I can attend to it!

What Eclipse-related bookmarks/feeds (other than EclipseZone, of course) do you frequently use?

RSS feed of the CVS commits to see what's happening, Planet Eclipse and the wiki. I spend a lot of time in the eclipse irc channels #eclipse, #eclipse-dev and #eclipse-linux.

Lastly, how do you see yourself in the Eclipse community, and why should people vote for you?

I see my as one piece in the whole eclipse puzzle. You can also do your puzzle without the one piece, but simply said: it's nicer when all pieces are there

As I'm an independent, it's not like other contributors from the member companys. All the time I use to browse bugzilla, fixing bugs, contributing patches and helping other people in newsgroups/irc is my free time.

So voting for me means: My level of happiness increases and I'll contribute more and more patches because it's so beautiful to see new features in new eclipse releases where i can say: hey, that was me

EclipseZone would like to thank those that took part, and please remember to vote for the individual awards prior to the closing date of February 16th 2007.

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