Sorry to hear about WatirCraft LLC. Good news about finding what sounds like an interesting position at Convio. I look forward to hearing about how Rasta is being utilised.
Cheers, Alister Scott Brisbane, Australia Blog: http://watirmelon.wordpress.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/alisterscott Google: http://www.google.com/profiles/alister.scott LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alisterscott On Jun 4, 1:45 pm, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote: > Pete Dignan and I have decided to shut down WatirCraft LLC. > > I will begin working full time for Convio in July. Convio has made a big > commitment to using Watir. I will continue to be involved in the Watir > community, but Convio is a software company that uses Watir internally > to test its software -- just like many of you. Convio has not made any > commitment to sponsor contributions to Watir, except when they also > serve their internal needs. I'm actually looking forward to going back > to being mainly a tester, instead of a framework developer. > > It will take some time to figure out what this transition will mean for > my involvement with Watir. For one, it means we will need more help > running the Watir project. Getting the Watir 1.7 release out has been > delayed due to this transition (and a sprained knee), but all that is > behind me now, so that should be able to move out shortly. > > Some people have asked about the WatirCraft framework. Convio currently > uses the Rasta framework, and I expect to get more involved with that > framework, which Hugh McGowan (at Convio) has been working on quite > diligently lately. Some time ago, I sketched out a plan to integrate > Rasta into WatirCraft. I expect to take a second look at those plans. > > The WatirCraft framework itself is open-source and will continue to be > hosted on Github and available for use. > > Bret > > -- > Bret Pettichord > CTO, WatirCraft LLC,www.watircraft.com > Lead Developer, Watir,www.watir.com > Blog,www.io.com/~wazmo/blog > Twitter,www.twitter.com/bpettichord > > Ask me about Watir trainingwww.watircraft.com/training --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
