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Things continue to be lively on the Mylyn front. I’m very happy to say that we have a new committer on one of our most used components, the Bugzilla Connector. While I only know Frank Becker from his patches, I’m very happy to announce that he has earned his commit rights. In other news, David Green, has also earned commit rights for his contribution and maintenance of the new Mylyn WikiText component, which will appear in the March release of Mylyn 3.1. It’s great to see our committer diversity increase in this organic way, alongside our very helpful contributor community.

If you’re a user of Mylyn or use a Mylyn-based Eclipse integration such as Tasktop, SpringSource Tool Suite, Atlassian JIRA, Rally, CollabNet or one of the many others, we would really appreciate that you show your support by voting for the Mylyn committers in the Eclipse awards. The original nominations are included below.

Frank Becker for Top Contributor

Through countless patches Frank has provided the other Mylyn committers help in improving and evolving the Bugzilla connector. This connector is used by a large portion of bugs.eclipse.org users, and is one of the few “common good” projects within the Eclipse community that has no official support from the Eclipse Foundation. It has been encouraging for the Mylyn project to see community contributions on this connector, in the form of Frank’s patches to both Mylyn’s rich client and the Bugzilla server.

Steffen Pingel for Top Committer

I nominate Steffen Pingel for his contributions to the Mylyn project, in the form of community support via countless bugs and posts, as well as his code contributions. I hate to say this, but Steffen had more than half of the commits on Mylyn last year. To put that into perspective, Dash stats for 2008 put Mylyn as the most active Tools project by a pretty wide margin. His increasing involvement with cross-project, build and maintenance of the Java EPP distribution has also been helpful in the release trains.

Mik Kersten for Top Ambassador    Apologies for the self-promotion

Mik has been evangelizing Eclipse in highly visible venues that reach beyond the current Eclipse ecosystem. He presented a widely attended talk at JavaOne that earned him a JavaOne Rock Star Hall of Fame award. Mik is the first member of the Eclipse ecosystem to be recognized with this award. He has also been promoting Eclipse and RCP at numerous other conferences, including a recent keynote talk at W-JAX, talks at SpringOne conferences, and some of the most highly rated talks on the Eclipse conference circuit. Mik’s Eclipse Mylyn 2.2 and 3.0 videos have been viewed over 20,000 times (combined), making them the most highly viewed Eclipse webcasts on Eclipse Live. As CEO of Tasktop Technologies, Mik is demonstrating the capabilities of the Eclipse platform by basing all of his company’s innovative products and services on Eclipse and RCP.

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