Sorry about that Paul. :) I'll give the secret away now just in case I end up prematurely emailing again: Kevin Spacey *is* Keyser Soze!
I'll keep it terse and summarize as opposed to rambling as I was intending with my previous email/manifesto. As Watir becomes more popular and used by more people, we need help to keep it going. It is open source, it's something Bret, Paul, and others have devoted their time freely to work on and make available. The more popular Watir becomes, the more infrastructure and help is needed. If you have some time, donate it. As I said before, if you've been using Watir for only a day, then you're one day ahead of the next person. Once I made the decision to use Watir for functional automation, I resolved to become a part of the project and dedicate some time to helping improve Watir. Along the way, I've managed to make an ass of myself on several occasions - sending out a half finished email :), answering a couple of questions erroneously trying to multitask. That being said, I've made some positive contributions as well I'd hope. Overall, I'd agree, that Watir should be more popular and I hesitate to use yet another pun but jump in the Watir. Watir is a great libary to use and introduce people to Ruby as several of you have mentioned. If you'd like to make Watir more popular then please contribute in whatever way you can - the Wiki can be added to by anyone, there are more and more simple questions coming up on the mailing list that many people can answer, any documentation about your own experiences and learnings are helpful. Otherwise, there's only so much time and effort that can be spent by a few individuals on an unpaid project, so that if it becomes too popular without a decent infrastructure may fail under the weight and drive people away. As I said before, 'Carried on by the people at large', or essentially supported in a concrete way by the people at large is an important idea in the widespread adoption of Watir. Get involved! -Charley On 9/18/06, Walter Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too started learning Ruby because I wanted to use Watir. Little did I > know what I was letting myself in for. Now, I do almost everything in > Ruby. All I still use Perl for nowadays is Win32-GUITest stuff. If it > wasn't for Watir, I would probably never have looked at Ruby. > > Having said that, Watir itself is awesome. And it's a good experience to > see how the open source development methodology works, as done by Good > Guys (TM). Yes, I want Watir to be more popular. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bret Pettichord > Sent: 15 September 2006 11:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Wtr-general] Do you want Watir to be more popular? > > A couple of recent posts were premised on the assumption that we want > Watir to be more popular? Do we? Why? > > It got me started on a long post describing my own goals, which needs > more time. In the mean time, i thought i would ask the question to the > group. > > Bret > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Important Notice: > Authorised Financial Services Provider > > Important restrictions, qualifications and disclaimers > ("the Disclaimer") apply to this email. To read this click on the > following address or copy into your Internet browser: > > http://www.absa.co.za/disclaimer > > The Disclaimer forms part of the content of this email in terms of > section 11 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions > Act, 25 of 2002. > > If you are unable to access the Disclaimer, send a blank e-mail > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we will send you a copy of the > Disclaimer. > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
