On 5/4/07, Alien Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How are you guys so helpful ?
That's actually a really good question. The people who started Watir
had all participated in other Open Source projects, some successful,
some unsuccessful. The early Watir community insisted that everyone,
particularly beginners, be treated with respect and courtesy.
Many, if not most, of the Watir community are not expert programmers.
If the project is going to continue, and continue to be successful,
two things have to happen: beginners must continue to be treated with
respect and courtesy; and as people get more experience with Watir and
Ruby, they have to be encouraged in turn to help out where they can
contribute.
Mostly this means answering questions on the list: if you see a
question you can answer, please do so. It's OK if you're wrong-- as
long as you are not deliberately misleading, we will all learn
something.
In addition, if you can help with documentation or patches or
features, please contribute that work also. Charley just asked today
for contributions to the user guide. Maybe a reference to the copy of
Pickaxe included with the Ruby distro would be a good thing.
One very exciting project happening sort of under the radar is to make
Watir, FireWatir, SafariWatir, (and possibly Selenium RC) all have a
more consistent set of functionality and syntax. I'm not a great
programmer, but I like to answer off-topic questions on the list, and
I've started to use the non-IE Watirs, and I contributed my first
inconsistency report yesterday. The point being, that a few little
contributions here and there move the project along nicely, as long as
a large number of people are making the contributions.
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