Google Donates $20,000 to Eclipse Foundation

For those complaining that Google should have donated more, that's just ridiculous. Google already does donate more; they support the Eclipse Foundation financially.<p>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.<p>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.<p>As an Eclipse user, let me say: thank you, Google.

Note that the $20K was for hardware, not people.<p>Google also has a few devs pushing code into Eclipse, so it's not like Google's been ignoring them all this time. <a href="http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/commit-count-loc.php" rel="nofollow">http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/commit-count-lo...</a>

I'm really annoyed with the people looking a gift horse in the mouth in this thread.

I am a fan of how much Google has put in Eclipse. I think Google employees are on the Eclipse board, they pay Eclipse committers, and might be one of the bigger contributors to the foundation.<p>However, I do think that Google (and most companies) should step it up even more. Consider how many employees Google has using Eclipse, and how many products Google has building on Eclipse. They are doing a lot with Eclipse and should contribute a lot.<p>Yes, Eclipse is open source, and companies do not need to contribute to it. But the benefits of open source is a lot more than the free price, it is the freedom to improve bugs that affect your development, and most importantly the freedom to make sure that some single company is not leading the product/project in a strange direction.<p>I do think that every company that uses Eclipse as an IDE for its employees should have a moral obligation to donate $500 (the typical price of an IDE) to the Eclipse Foundation. And if you are building a product on top of Eclipse, then perhaps 10% of the $500 per user of your product.<p>Yes, I know I am asking for a lot. Yes, donating to the foundation does include the full time salaries of committers. Yes, there are more companies than Google that need to be doing this. And, yes, I do fear that the tragedy of the commons is to be expected by default for any successful open source project.

"a number of users reported significant performance issues when using the 4.2 release, compared to identical setups running the older 3.8"<p>3.8 is not older than 4.2, they were released together.

I ran into the "Juno is ridiculously slow" thing myself (mentioned it just yesterday here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488005" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488005</a>).<p>Running Juno on my work laptop (a recent ThinkPad i5 system) is close to unusably slow while 3.8 runs great (for a Java UI-heavy app).<p>Hopefully this helps sort things out (though donating time of Google engineers might be a better practical solution). In any case, I think I'll stick with Sublime Text 2 for Android development when doing anything other than on-device debugging.

They should donate a lot more, and actually get them to make a version that is highly optimized for building Android apps. It should be like "Eclipse for Android", rather than just "Eclipse for Java", with an Android development add-on, as it is now.

So, less than one developer year? That is incredibly generous.

eclipse is ridiculously slow IDE. Let me change letters for you: DIE.

$20K? just 20K. :(

Woah 20k$ I mean it's like .... Like ... Ridiculous !

20K is too less coming from Google. They have thousands of developers benefiting from the ide and Android + Google tools use eclipse as well.