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For those complaining that Google should have donated more, that's just ridiculous. Google already does donate more; they support the Eclipse Foundation financ
by justinsb 14y ago
For those complaining that Google should have donated more, that's just ridiculous. Google already does donate more; they support the Eclipse Foundation financially.
There are performance issues being reported in the latest Eclipse, and it emerged that automated performance tests that used to be run are not currently being run because there aren't machines available. Google steps up - within 48 hours - with more than enough cash to solve the problem.
The problem needed a small amount of resources now, rather than a huge donation in three months time. A bigger donation might not even have solved this problem - obviously there was some resource allocation failure in the first place.
As an Eclipse user, let me say: thank you, Google.
- lifeguard 14y agoFrom The Fine Article: "Within 48 hours of Mike’s post, a representative of Google’s Open Source Programs Office let the developers know they would be taking up his challenge of helping getting the performance tests running again" That is awesome. Many companies could not get 20k approved for an internal project in that amount of time. Thank you Google!