Congrats to Jarmo! And many, many thanks to the watir core dev team for their hard work on and dedication to watir.
If you're like me, watir has become an indispensable testing tool that increases your test coverage and adds to your professional skill set. So, why not put your money where your mouth is? Make a donation: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2982. Congrats/thanks again. orde PS: Yep...I made a donation myself. It just ended up as anonymous ;) On Sep 24, 3:06 pm, Jarmo Pertman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Charley, for these nice words :) > > If someone hasn't noticed then Watir's repo on GitHub (http:// > github.com/bret/watir) has started to see some action lately. > Hopefully we can keep it like that and start releasing as often as > possible. There's no need to hold back ourselves when it comes to > releasing. At least that is my moto and that's why i kept bugging > Charley about making a release. Finally it happened :) > > There is still a lot of things to do starting from cleaning up the > existing code and fixing bugs and adding new features. I'm also > waiting to see what comes out of Watir-WebDriver lead by Jari Bakken's > development. I've helped him a little to deal with IE specific things > so far, but i'll try to add more value to that project since i really > would like to see it in the end as a Watir 2.0. Forgive me if my views > doesn't comply with someone else :) > > Anyway, hopefully we can build a better future for everyone :) > > I hope to see more people to get involved with helping us to change > things in Watir/Watir-WebDriver. > > Jarmo > > On Sep 25, 12:51 am, Charley Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I just wanted to send out an announcement about a new addition to the > > core Watir contributors and team. Jarmo Pertman has been working with > > Watir for a while. I'll let his bio speak for itself: > > > My name is Jarmo Pertman (@jarm0) and i am writing about things that > > really matter in IT :) I love a software programming language called > > Ruby. I also like to create quality software, which means that > > automated (web) user interface- and unit tests are a necessity. Watir, > > RSpec and Cucumber are the tools i'd recommend. > > > He has an excellent blog athttp://www.itreallymatters.net/dealing > > with testing, Watir, Rspec, and his own framework > > -http://github.com/jarmo/watirsplash Jarmo's also done a podcast with > > Zeljko on Watir:http://watirpodcast.com/36-jarmo-pertman/ I'd > > recommend anyone doing Watir testing to also do a podcast with Zeljko, > > it's well worth it. > > > Jarmo's been driving changes to watir and making great pull requests > > on github for a while now. Sorry it took me so long to add him as a > > core contributor :), but it's been well worth it. > > > You might have seen the latest pre-release version of Watir email. It > > couldn't have been done without Jarmo hounding me to release it, and > > testing and tweaking code and his additions and "what's happening > > now?" on IRC - the #watir channel on > > freenode.net:http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/The+IRC+Channel I'd highly > > recommend joining it if you use Watir. > > > Join me in welcoming Jarmo to the Watir core team. :) > > > Charley Baker > > Lead Developer, Watir,http://watir.com -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. You received this message because you are subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected]
