[Seleniumflexapi-development] Revitalise the project

[Fergal H. <fer...@gm...>]

Hi Everyone,

I want to revitalize the Selenium Flex API project. I've been fairly busy
with another project at work over the past few months so I've neglected the
API and it's starting to wane. I'd like to do a big push and get a few
releases out over the next few weeks, capped with a release of 3.0 before
Christmas which will include the ability to record scripts (which I've found
the technical solution to).

Simply put, I've found in the past, I need help on this project. Otherwise
I'll work my ass of for a few weeks and run out of steam just to get a
single release out. I'd like to get the project to a state where it has a
few people regularly contributing to various different aspects of it, so
that it's kept humming over and gradually grows in size and increases in
quality. I think some important goals are to have regular releases, perhaps
as many as once a month, a forum that provides quick feedback, but most
importantly stability of the API and good up-to-date documentation online.

Since you've had enough interest in the project to subscribe to the
development mailing list I'd like to invite you to take a role on this
project. Obviously the more time someone is willing to commit, the better,
but even a small commitment would be appreciated. I've identified the
following roles that need to be filled. I'm hoping one person will take the
lead on each of these areas:

- Document writers: We need at least one person to write up and publish all
documentation for the API. The will involve writing tutorials, articles and
keeping on top of developers and testers to keep the reference material
up-to-date.

- Website editor: We need at least one person to carry out development and
administration of the project website. They'll be responsible for pretty
much everything that goes on, on the sourceforege site. It's not a huge site
so this is a fairly manageable task for one person.

- Testers: The more the better frankly. Currently there is only a very
flimsy test process for the api. We need individuals to setup and execute
test cases on the API. Ideally they'd use the existing infrastructure of the
sourceforge site but this is reall down to whoever takes the lead on this.

- Developers: We need more developers to help improve the current code and
develop new features to be added. You'll need to be familiar with
ActionScript.

My role in this will be as a general project manager/developer/release
manager.

I'd really appreciate if you could help out in one or more of these areas.
I've found that this project is quite satisfying to work on once it gets
moving and I'm ping we can have some kind of community spirit emerging from
it. Please contact this mailing list if your interested, or if you'd prefer
contact me directly at fer...@gm....

I'd like to keep the project small and we should all use this mailing list
for project communications. This will keep everyone in the loop with whats
going on and hopefully we can get this thing snow balling. If it gets bigger
and to much to handle we can have mailing lists for the different aspects of
the project but for now I'd like to keep it all together.

Hoping to hear from you soon,
Fergal