I recovered 3 minutes of Hugh's talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjEaN-mmJ94 The video shows a lot of participants in the room.
marekj http://rubytester.com 2011/4/13 Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com>: > Hugh and I talked about the Convio branch. We saw that the Facebook guys > have their fork on a Facebook account, and we want to do the same thing. So > that means we'll move the convio branch to a convio account. Although the > real goal is to get Convio onto master. > > Moving the repo from my personal account to a Watir project account is also > on my roadmap, although it is after getting us to join the Software Freedom > Conservancy. I spoke with Bradley Kuhn in SF -- he's the director of the > SFC. The revised deadline is the end of the month. Not sure if we'll be able > to make it. There is a ton of stuff that needs to be collected, if any one > wants to help get the ball rolling. > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Joining+the+Software+Freedom+Conservancy > > I'm still in the process of replacing my laptop and ipad. > > I think you all saw the news that Marek was in fact able to recover some of > the Watir Day video. He posted excerpts from me and Charley's talk > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS3yNY9hpx0) and has a lot footage from > Hugh's talk and the Facebook talk, including the shot where they are > standing in front of a slide that says "Facebook uses Watir". > > Still need to get slides from Simon and Alok and Brian uploaded to the wiki. > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Watir+Day+Presentations > > > Bret > > > 2011/4/11 Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> >> >> Sorry to hear about the laptops, what a loss of equipment and the >> intangibles like footage from Watir Day, personal code/files etc. I'm >> definitely guilty of not watching my own stuff closely. Though tempting to >> have this old thing stolen, I need to at least make sure I'm backed up >> regularly and covered through insurance. >> I figured as much on the Convio branch, I'm not touching it, though we >> probably should move it off to somewhere else. I suppose we could do a basic >> Watir account on Github. That might make it easier for finances? Not sure, >> but there are precedents - Rails and others. The other two branches were >> merged back and didn't need to live anymore. I think we were figuring out >> git at the time. >> I'll talk to Alok, their pull request should be easy to apply to current >> 1.8.1, I briefly looked at it. I've not had to deal with localization to >> that extent, but it's something that comes up often and there are tests. >> With the money we currently have, we should look at CI, getting some EC2 >> instances, since as you mentioned it's getting hard to have all the >> environments we should have for development, the one that's biting me now is >> issues in IE9 which only installs on Windows7. >> Anyhow, I'd love additional feedback on this or the individual points that >> I listed, many of which need to be fleshed out. I want to send updates on >> some of the this to the mailing list for Watir Day and copy the >> watir-general list. >> I suppose we could move this discussion to the wtr-dev list as well. >> Instead of adding more people. Thanks Zeljko. :) >> Cheers, >> Charley Baker >> Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com >> >> >> 2011/4/11 Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> >>> >>> The zero-index branch is about 80% done. I was working on it some last >>> week. The issue I was working with at that point was making the array >>> operator also behave as a zero index. On Monday, I'll find out about when my >>> laptop might be replaced. Now I'm in the same boat as Charley -- not having >>> a good laptop for development of Watir. >>> >>> I was hoping to get some of the Convio changes merged into trunk, that is >>> why that is there. This is actually where we maintain the version we use at >>> Convio so please don't delete it. This is both the project repo as well as >>> my personal repo; perhaps a reason to move the official project repo into >>> another account? We could also perhaps move the branch to Hugh's account. >>> Since he and Marek work on this with me, I am looping him into this >>> discussion. >>> >>> Branches should be deleted when they have been merged back in or >>> abandoned. >>> >>> We need to sync up with the Facebook folks as well. I saw a pull request >>> from Alok recently. Looks like he wants us to patch 1.6.5. What do you guys >>> think about that? >>> >>> Bret >>> >>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Yeah, agreed for now. We also need to make a push for the 0 index >>>> branch. I've deleted some of the other branches, and would like to delete >>>> the Convio branch. Yah/Nay? >>>> >>>> And maybe focus some work with people to get the zero index branch >>>> pulled in. We can also push on getting sync'd up with the watir-spec >>>> branch. >>>> Charley Baker >>>> Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Jari Bakken <jari.bak...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If the goal is to bring 1.X closer to watir-webdriver, we should >>>>> target the watir2 branch of watirspec rather than master. I'd be happy >>>>> to set up and get HEAD running against the watir2 branch. I think that >>>>> would be a good starting point to move things forward (obviously >>>>> discussing the bigger changes along the way). Fixing potential >>>>> failures against watirspec's master branch seems like a waste of time >>>>> to me. >>>>> >>>>> Obviously a big part of making those specs pass will be 0-indexing, >>>>> but it will at least be well-tested without having to change the >>>>> existing test suite too much (since it will be configurable). >>>>> >>>>> WDYT? >>>>> >>>>> Jari >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Charley Baker >>>>> <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> > Oh absolutely, that was a quick draft. Btw, just sent this on to >>>>> > Jarmo who >>>>> > couldn't unfortunately make it this week, also copying Jari as well. >>>>> > There's >>>>> > a lot here that's left off and needs to be fleshed out. I also >>>>> > definitely >>>>> > want to spend some time with Watirspec, and drive out the >>>>> > inconsistencies >>>>> > and failures. This is more of a braindump to get it down than >>>>> > anything else, >>>>> > and getting people involved and the discussion going. >>>>> > >>>>> > Charley Baker >>>>> > Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Jarmo <jarm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> What about development of Watir itself? What about compat with >>>>> >> Watir-Webdriver? Watirspec? >>>>> >> J. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Charley Baker >>>>> >> <charley.ba...@gmail.com> >>>>> >> wrote: >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> fyi, forgot to send this to you. >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>>> >>> From: Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> >>>>> >>> Date: Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:35 PM >>>>> >>> Subject: Follow up on Watir day >>>>> >>> To: Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com>, Željko Filipin >>>>> >>> <zeljko.fili...@gmail.com>, Alister Scott >>>>> >>> <alister.sc...@gmail.com>, Tim >>>>> >>> Koopmans <tim.ko...@gmail.com> >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> After coming back from Watir Day and Selenium Conf, I want to keep >>>>> >>> the >>>>> >>> momentum going. There are several things we can do to keep this up, >>>>> >>> and make >>>>> >>> sure the enthusiasm for testing keeps up. Some of that depends on >>>>> >>> hitting >>>>> >>> the email list and some we can do as part of the project on our >>>>> >>> main mailing >>>>> >>> lists. Here's a quick summary of my thoughts: >>>>> >>> * Blogs - related to watir and automation testing (CI, ATDD...) >>>>> >>> * IRC >>>>> >>> * Getting directly involved - Design skills, documentation, pull >>>>> >>> requests, etc - we need some documentation around these areas >>>>> >>> * Podcasts - contact Zeljko or he may contact you :) >>>>> >>> * Answering questions on the mailing list >>>>> >>> * Joining the dev mailing list - prioritizing JIRA tickets >>>>> >>> * Testing prereleases on various OSes/browser combinations. >>>>> >>> * Help with setting up and maintaining CI. (we don't have it now >>>>> >>> but >>>>> >>> should be able to do this with our current funds) >>>>> >>> * Funding - getting more funds, and working through how to deal >>>>> >>> with what >>>>> >>> we have already >>>>> >>> * Watir Day next year and around the world - Zeljko and the >>>>> >>> European day, >>>>> >>> as well as what we want to do for next year - US and/or Europe >>>>> >>> * Watir Grid - and how to run distributed tests >>>>> >>> I'd be happy to send this out to the mailing list and dev list, >>>>> >>> possibly >>>>> >>> the main list with some amendments to expand out the various areas, >>>>> >>> these >>>>> >>> are the high level topics and I'd hope to get more information for >>>>> >>> specifics >>>>> >>> on each from everyone. Let me know what you think. I want to send >>>>> >>> out >>>>> >>> something in the next week. >>>>> >>> Forward on at will if you think other people should be involved. >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> Cheers, >>>>> >>> Charley Baker >>>>> >>> Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com >>>>> >>> >>>>> >> >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Bret Pettichord >>> Director, Watir Project, www.watir.com >>> >>> Blog, www.testingwithvision.com >>> Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord >>> >> > > > > -- > Bret Pettichord > Director, Watir Project, www.watir.com > > Blog, www.testingwithvision.com > Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord > > _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list Wtr-development@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
