2023 Annual Community Report | The Eclipse Foundation

Except where otherwise noted, this report covers the period April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.
I’m excited to report on the state of the Eclipse Foundation. I am constantly humbled by the support shown by the community, both through the contributions of the thousands of committers and contributors to our projects, as well as through the financial support of our member organizations. I am also proud of the commitment and quality of the efforts of our staff in support of our mission. A heartfelt thank you to you all.
As you will see in this report, the breadth and diversity of activities being carried out under the broad banner of "the Eclipse Community" continues to grow. This stretches from renewed strategic investments being made by our members in the eponymous Eclipse IDE through to the tremendous achievements of the new Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle as part of the Foundation's focus on the automotive industry. It also stretches from a new commitment of the Foundation to be both a thought leader and a leader in best practices in implementing supply chain security for open source, as well as our recent engagement in public policy impacting the software industry, such as the Cyber Resilience Act. Collectively, the Foundation's growth and engagement in these initiatives are confirmation that we are providing value to our community, projects, and members.
In closing, I wish to thank all of our community members for their support and contributions. Connecting with the community, whether it’s face-to-face or virtually, continues to inspire me as we work towards our collective goals — it makes this role I play so fulfilling.
I hope you find this annual report useful and informative. As always, we welcome input from all of our community. Let us know your thoughts at emo@eclipse.org or on Twitter @EclipseFdn.
The Eclipse Foundation’s mission and vision is summarized as follows:
The Eclipse Foundation's purpose is to advance our open source software projects and to cultivate their communities and business ecosystems.
The Foundation's long-term success comes from our dedication to a unique combination of fostering open source projects and community, coupled with our commitment to creating sustainable, commercially successful ecosystems around those projects.
To be the leading community for individuals and organizations to collaborate on open technologies.
Over the past year, the Eclipse Foundation together with its community has achieved great things. None of these achievements would be possible without the support of our members.
Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle has experienced momentum in its first year with 35 members, 15 projects onboarded and five additional projects pending. SDV has hosted number of engaging events fostering the necessary stakeholder involvement to drive the success of the initiative, and is co-hosting the Automotive Open Source Summit, which will bring together automotive leaders to discuss the latest trends in automotive-grade open source software, and to learn about the technologies and challenges in automotive software development.
We have prioritized security this year, focusing on providing services to our projects that help improve their security posture, including a focus on SBOMS, reproducible builds and a SLSA project badging program. This focus includes a commitment to have security become part of our overall project services on an ongoing basis. The Foundation wishes to thank the OpenSSF’s Alpha-Omega project for their significant funding to help make this work possible.
Jakarta EE celebrates its 5 year anniversary along with the release of Jakarta EE 10, the first major release to deliver innovation for enterprise Java.
We released Sparkplug 3.0, which is on track to become an ISO international standard later this year.
Our marketing and ecosystem development teams continue to support and promote our projects, working groups and their communities.
We’ve expanded industry collaboration opportunities, adding to our successful Working Group model to now also include Interest Groups as an alternative, lighter-weight means for our members to work together. Collectively, we continue to work to meet our members' ambitions to right-size their collaborative efforts in support of our open source projects.
We continue to play a strategic role in initiatives to encourage good governance in open source adoption in industry and government. In particular, we continue to hold a leading role in the work being done by the OSPO.Zone.
The Eclipse community continues to be engaged on the projects and initiatives that impact their respective communities.
Eclipse Foundation projects overall
European research projects supported
Members participating in commits
With the addition of 15 new open source projects, 2022 was an absolutely massive year for the Eclipse Automotive Top-level Project, thanks to the efforts of the Eclipse SDV Working Group. These additions more than double the number of projects operating under the purview of the Eclipse Automotive PMC, which, as of March 2023, has a total of 26 open source projects. Likewise, the Eclipse Digital Twins Top-level Project has seen significant relative growth with the addition of five new open source projects, increasing its total to six.
Altogether, we added 31 new open source projects, including one new addition for Eclipse Adoptium, one for Eclipse Cloud Development Tools, three for Eclipse Oniro, four for Eclipse Technology, one for Eclipse Tools, and one new specification project for EE4J.
As is our regular practice, we also consolidated and/or terminated a large number of open source projects. As an example, in the past year we consolidated the 12 subprojects of Eclipse Mylyn into the parent project, and then further converted the parent project into a subproject of the Eclipse Tools top level project. By taking the steps of consolidating, especially with more mature Eclipse projects, we ensure that both the committers of thos