Re: [DUnit-interest] DUnit branding and continuity

[Mark E. (Embarcadero) <med...@us...>]

Hi Juanco.  I see you've managed to spark some interest on the list.  
Good show!

On 4/17/2011 10:42 AM, Juancarlo Añez wrote:
> It's a contradiction that Embarcadero has contributed the manpower for 
> as many changes, and yet it says it lacks the manpower.

"Lacking manpower" isn't how I would characterize the situation.  The 
changes I recently committed were a collection of a couple of years 
worth of bug fixes.  They really are not that extensive.  These changes 
were made by individual contributors to facilitate the use of DUnit 
internally, but are also relevant for the rest of the DUnit community. 
The main reason for submitting these changes was to simply the job of 
keeping our local copy of DUnit in sync with the version on SourceForge.

On 4/15/2011 4:39 PM, Juancarlo Añez wrote:
> I'm wondering if it would not be best for Embarcadero to take hold of 
> the source code (fork it), rename it, and relaunch it as open source 
> using a more modern platform (GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.), and new rules 
> for encouraging and accepting contributions.

DUnit has been mature for some time now.  Given the lack of activity on 
this mailing list I don't have the impression that a "relaunch" is 
something the existing community is seeking.  In terms of moving the 
project forward I personally would like to see the DUnit2 changes merged 
in to the existing trunk if that can be done in a way that maintains a 
high level of compatibility with the existing framework.  Some 
discussion took place regarding this last year on the mailing list, but 
that is as far as things went.

I'm not speaking as an "official" representative of Embarcadero, but I 
will say that there is interest internally in promoting unit testing in 
future releases of Rad Studio.  If at some point that involves making 
enhancements to DUnit, that is likely the time you'll see the company 
become more involved in the project.

Mark