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Philippe Ombredanne: Top Contributor Nominee

At 11:27 PM on Feb 14, 2007, Daniel Spiewak wrote:

Philippe Ombredanne (EasyEclipse, PHPEclipse, Eclipse.org/ATF and nexB), self described as "French lost in Northern California, USA" 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?

It started back in 2002 as a user.

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

I am lucky since my day and night job is about open source. I help a bit on various Eclipse based open source project like JBoss rules IDE, the Eclipse Ajax toolkit framework, and PHPEclipse. But the project I contribute the most to is EasyEclipse, an open source Eclipse distro. Most of the day, I code and test plugins. The things that matter most to me are what makes tools easier to use. Eclipse is still too hard to setup and use. I like to be involved with the community when I can: I administered part of the Google Summer of Code at Eclipse last summer, and I hang on Eclispe related IRC channels.

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

I have not added any platform feature per se, I am more in the patches business. I sometimes lobby hard to make committers' life miserable, within reason.

For instance, I am proud to have contributed to the debate on Eclipse plugins versioning. Since 3.2, every plugin now has a very cool long and hard to remember version number.

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

I love open source plugins. All of them. AnyEdit from Andrei Lostukov and EclipseUtils from Alexander Lobas are two of the most simple and useful additions that I would always have. Ameteras -- a suite of plugins -- rocks. I have no opinion on closed-source plugins.

What OSes do you do development on?

Mostly Windows, Linux and MacOSX. Sometimes in virtual machines.

Are you attending EclipseCon or giving a talk this year?

I am lucky that EclipseCon is in my back yard (literally a few miles away). I will be giving there a few talks on Ajax, C/C++ and plugins mashups, and a short talk on my top 10 Eclipse annoyances.

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

I maintain one bookmark for every open source eclipse plugin project I know of. I should put them online.

I visit planeteclipse, eclipse-plugin.info, eclipse-wiki.info ( which I co-maintain) and eclipseplugincentral on a regular basis.

What do you get up to in life when you're not thinking about or working with Eclipse?

Beyond Eclipse, I am also interested in tools for software teams: things like version control, bug tracking.

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

I have a strong bias towards community-driven, free, libre and open source software. If you care for Eclipse libre, vote for pedro!

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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