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Eclipse Sets Off a Big Bang

Callisto effort will culminate with 10 simultaneous project releases

By Barry Burd

May 15, 2006 — (Page 1 of 5)
To avoid some of the chaos that can accompany open-source team efforts, the Eclipse Foundation is orchestrating the release of 10 of its most prominent projects. The grand finale takes place near the end of June, when all 10 projects release major updates on the same day. This 10-way coordination, code-named Callisto, has been in the works since August 2005. The Callisto release includes updates to BIRT (the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project), WTP (the Web Tools Platform project), TPTP (the Test and Performance Tools Platform project) and other projects in the Eclipse dominion. Also included as part of the Callisto plan is the release of Eclipse 3.2, this year’s update of the overarching Eclipse Project.

“What if you want to use the Web Tools and the Data Tools together?” asked Bjorn Freeman-Benson, technical director of open-source process and infrastructure for the Eclipse Foundation. “Last year we released the two projects on different days. They were close, but they were still two different days. You couldn’t be sure which version of Web Tools to use with which version of Data Tools. People were confused.”

Some observers are still confused about the scope of the Callisto effort. According to an official Web page (www.eclipse.org/projects/callisto.php) describing Callisto: “While Callisto is about the simultaneous release of ten projects, it is not a unification of the projects—each project remains a separate open source project operating with its own project leadership, its own committers, and its own project plan.”

In a sense, the Callisto Simultaneous Release is more defensive than offensive. Callisto attempts to ensure that numbered releases of 10 major projects work together without coming into conflict. (For example, a plug-in associated with one project shouldn’t override a plug-in that comes with another project.) Callisto does not ensure that each project makes optimal use of another project’s features. If anything, this project synergy will be a byproduct of Callisto rather than an explicit Callisto goal.

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