2010/3/10 Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com:
I'm a little surprised by this altogether, actually. I had seen some mention of Selenium adoption, but nothing concrete. Was this discussed publicly anywhere, or has this kind of project started to migrate behind closed doors now that there are so many paid people? I'm subscribed to all major MediaWiki development discussion fora, as far as I know, but I've felt increasingly out of the loop lately. Having more paid developers is great (and so is a good testing framework!), but that shouldn't mean that decisions are made where volunteers can't weigh in.
We're initially setting up Selenium for use by the usability initiative, with the idea of extending it to the rest of the software when we have time/resources for that. You're right that this should probably have been communicated earlier, but until a few weeks ago the status was "Ryan's patiently waiting for the Selenium servers to arrive and get set up".
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)