Regarding my fork (for those who may not be familiar: fork is here - http://github.com/ethan-medidata/watir - and previous discussion of it is at http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wtr-development/2009-October/001227.html and http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wtr-development/2010-January/001479.html )
After talking with Charley on the irc channel for a while about this, I think that the best way to go right now is for me to release the work I've done in my fork as a separate gem from Watir. I think I've improved a lot of things in my fork, but I know that it is too much to reasonably expect to be merged back into Watir, as it is. At the moment I do not know how to break it into parts which are both small enough to be merged back in, and stand on their own - I want to work on this and try to present things in a more manageable fashion, which may be merged one reasonable piece at a time. But, for the moment, I'd like to see my work being used, as I think it is ready for general usage. It's important to me that I maintain a good relationship with the Watir community, and I don't want to damage that. I hope that this course is approved of by the current core Watir community. Having talked with Charley about it, he agrees this is the right path, and I hope everyone else will think so too. So, I'm going to release it as a gem. I don't want to cause confusion with the real Watir, as I have changed so much, and any problems or issues with what my fork has become are not likely to be problems with Watir itself. Because of that, I think that releasing under a different name is in order. I came up with Vapir, and I quite like that as a name for it. I'd still be very happy to see changes merged back into Watir itself - I don't want this to be thought of as distancing my changes from their origin. To me, the goal is seeing my work getting used, so that users benefit from improvements I have made, and my code benefits from more real-world usage, finding bugs, uncovering any issues, missing features that people want. That's what I think is the best course for this, right now, but I'd like to hear what anybody/everybody here thinks. I hope that you will let me know your opinions. -Ethan
_______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
