Chapter 13. Contributing to Eclipse
Making Eclipse better – one commit at a time
Now that you know how to write plug-ins and do development and testing inside Eclipse, you can fix issues and create new features for the Eclipse platform. This chapter shows how to work with Eclipse's source, create bugs with the Eclipse bug tracking system, and submit changes into Gerrit at Eclipse.
In this chapter, we shall:
- Import the source of plug-ins through the plug-in view
- Check out projects from Git
- Raise bugs in the Eclipse bug-tracking system
- Submit changes to Gerrit
Open source contributions
Eclipse is an open source code base, and has been written by thousands of individuals across the years. The Eclipse Foundation are the stewards of the code, but the foundation ...
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