2010/3/10 Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com>om>:
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)