On 6 January 2012 11:51, Havard Blok <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings and happy new year JMeter developers,
>
> I am a software engineer at Google, focusing on load and performance
> testing of back-end servers. I hope you will be pleased to hear that JMeter
> has been used within Google for a few years now, with many teams setting up
> continous load testing similar to continous build and tests systems (e.g.
> Jenkins). I'm happy to tell more about how JMeter is deployed and used, but
> thought I'd leave the details for later. Feel free to ask, though.

Thanks! I saw a video of a presentation on JMeter recently; IIRC that
was about JMeter use at Google.

> Although I've been working with JMeter for a while, I'm new to your
> development, e-mail lists, and team. It would be interesting to hear who
> are active on the project now, what are the most pressing issues, and long
> term plans. (I've clicked the project pages, but assume not everything is
> written down).

The JMeter team is quite small; the PMC is shown here [1] and the
committers here [2]

Commit activity tends to vary with time; at present sebb and pmouwad
are the most active, but wolfel and milamber have also been active
since the formation of the JMeter TLP.

There are also lots of people who help out on the JMeter user list.

We use Bugzilla to track outstanding issues and as with all ASF
projects, decisions are taken on project mailing lists.

So there should not be anything that is not written down, though it
may not always be easy to find!

[1] http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#jmeter-pmc
[2] http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#jmeter

> It would also be interesting to know if and where you need a helping hand.

Patches, unit tests, bug reports etc are always useful.
Test cases and documentation especially.

> I'll have to be up-front and say that the time that I can dedicate to
> external projects is limited (regardless of what you might have heard about
> "20%" at Google), but it would be fun to get into the code base. There may
> also be a few feature requests from our side, which we can come back to
> later.

That's how I got into JMeter - we started to use it for a project @work.
I created a few Bugzilla enhancement requests and patches, and
eventually became a committer.

> I look forward to hearing from you all.
>
> Kind regards,
> Havard
>
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