Team expansion - do you want in?

[aslak hellesoy]

Hi all,

2012 has been very busy for me. I've had a daughter, lots of (paid) work and very little spare time to work with Cucumber maintenance. When I have had small bursts of time it has mainly gone towards Cucumber-JVM and Gherkin, and nearly no time spent on (Ruby) Cucumber and Cucumber-Rails. I haven't been using Ruby professionally in a couple of years, so even if I did have more time I probably wouldn't have done any more work here.

Matt Wynne has been the de facto maintainer of Ruby Cucumber and Cucumber-Rails for over a year now, but he doesn't have too much spare time either (2 kids!).

There is also Cucumber-JS led by Julien Biezemans. It's currently not at the same level of popularity as the other Cucumbers, but it has made great progress in its short life.

The Cucumber project needs more people who can take on the responsibility of fixing bugs, merging in pull requests and making releases. It doesn't look like Matt, Julien and I are going to get more spare time any time soon, so if the community wants less bugs and more frequent releases we need fresh blood.

I sent another email today about Gherkin 3. That is a fun project to work on, and when that gets mature it's time to refactor the existing Cucumber implementations to take advantage of it. I think that in order for Cucumber to survive another 5 years it would have to be simplified quite a bit, and I am excited about this.

So who is interested in helping out? We're looking for people who'd stick around somewhat regularly for at least a year. Just to be clear - I'm not thinking of retiring from Cucumber at all, just spending a little less time on it. I plan on sticking around for several years to come!

Aslak

[David Kowis]

I guess this is something I could commit to. I don't have a whole lot of
spare time either, but I can probably dedicate a couple hours a week at
least to this, probably more, depending on what's going on and such :)

I've been out of touch with cucumber for a while, as my current team at
work doesn't use/like it, and I haven't been able to convince them yet.
(And actually in this case cucumber might not be the best problem, since
we don't really need to define a language between the customer and the
dev team.)

I am doing ruby professionally, but it's old ruby 1.8.7 (moar sad face)
and I might be able to help out there as well. I'm also trying to get
into scalas, and I last recently touched cucumber-jvm.

Thanks,
David Kowis


PS: I know I could be doing this stuff already, I guess this is just me
saying publicly that I'll commit more to it.

[aslak hellesoy]

Sean, Enrique, anyone new:

1) Join the cukes...@googlegroups.com list

2) Read the recent threads there.

3) Confirm that you can build the bool project (a template for the next gherkin3 project)

4) Edit http://cukes.info/team.html and put yourself underneath one of the implementations

5) One of the team leads will give you push access to the github repos

One of the team leads will start to assign github tickets to you, or even better, volunteer for tickets you think you could fix.

I hope that everybody who has volunteered to join the team have successfully built the bool project within a week from now.

How does that sound?

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Sean Miller <seanmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Aslak,

Likewise, I've been using cucumber in Ruby for some time now, though my last proper involvement was tech reviewing The Cucumber Book.

I'd be happy to commit to a more active role.  What's the drill?

Cheers,

Sean.

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[Oscar Rieken]

I'll give it a shot 

[Konstantin Kudryashov]

I'm interested in representing Gherkin3/PHP :) Does it sound viable?

[Kosmas]

Hi Aslak,

Does the fact that I've also got 2 kids exclude me? :-) :-)

Only joking!
I would be glad to help with whatever time I got available.
I've used Cucumber with Rails so I would be interested to help there.
Even though I could only see Cucumber-Ruby on the team list.

[aslak hellesoy]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Kosmas <kos...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Aslak,

Does the fact that I've also got 2 kids exclude me? :-) :-)

Only joking!
I would be glad to help with whatever time I got available.
I've used Cucumber with Rails so I would be interested to help there.
Even though I could only see Cucumber-Ruby on the team list.

That's because noone has volunteered! Can you add yourself to the page and send a PR?

Please subscribe to the cukes-devs google group and continue dev discussions there.

This team is getting strong now. Good stuff.

Aslak

 

On Thursday, 31 January 2013 23:01:29 UTC+1, Aslak Hellesøy wrote:

Hi all,

2012 has been very busy for me. I've had a daughter, lots of (paid) work and very little spare time to work with Cucumber maintenance. When I have had small bursts of time it has mainly gone towards Cucumber-JVM and Gherkin, and nearly no time spent on (Ruby) Cucumber and Cucumber-Rails. I haven't been using Ruby professionally in a couple of years, so even if I did have more time I probably wouldn't have done any more work here.

Matt Wynne has been the de facto maintainer of Ruby Cucumber and Cucumber-Rails for over a year now, but he doesn't have too much spare time either (2 kids!).

There is also Cucumber-JS led by Julien Biezemans. It's currently not at the same level of popularity as the other Cucumbers, but it has made great progress in its short life.

The Cucumber project needs more people who can take on the responsibility of fixing bugs, merging in pull requests and making releases. It doesn't look like Matt, Julien and I are going to get more spare time any time soon, so if the community wants less bugs and more frequent releases we need fresh blood.

I sent another email today about Gherkin 3. That is a fun project to work on, and when that gets mature it's time to refactor the existing Cucumber implementations to take advantage of it. I think that in order for Cucumber to survive another 5 years it would have to be simplified quite a bit, and I am excited about this.

So who is interested in helping out? We're looking for people who'd stick around somewhat regularly for at least a year. Just to be clear - I'm not thinking of retiring from Cucumber at all, just spending a little less time on it. I plan on sticking around for several years to come!

Aslak

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[Ilan Pillemer]

On 06 Feb 2013, at 4:48 PM, Kosmas <kos...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Aslak,
>
> Does the fact that I've also got 2 kids exclude me? :-) :-)
>

I have 3 kids under 5.

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[Everton Moreth]

Sorry for late, reply...

I got no kids (yet). Can I apply for Ruby and JS ? o/

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[Julien Biezemans]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Everton Moreth <everton...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry for late, reply...

I got no kids (yet). Can I apply for Ruby and JS ? o/

We could certainly get some help on Cucumber.js! Have you used it?

[Matt Wynne]

On 4 Mar 2013, at 14:21, Everton Moreth <everton...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry for late, reply...

I got no kids (yet). Can I apply for Ruby and JS ? o/

Hi Everton,

No need to apply, just get started!

1. Join the cukes...@googlegroups.com mailing list.

2. Find the instructions in the archives of that list about sending a pull request to add yourself to http://cukes.info/team.html

3. Find a github issues ticket you'd like to fix, and send a pull request. When your first pull request is merged in, you'll get the commit bit, and you're on the team!

cheers,

Matt

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[Steve Tooke]

Hey Chris,

On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 08:19, chr...@rsons.org wrote:

Most of it builds without a hitch, but I'm having trouble getting the jruby section building:

$ rbenv install jruby-1.7.3
$ make
...
cd ruby && jruby -S rake
rbenv: jruby: command not found

The `jruby' command exists in these Ruby versions:
  jruby-1.7.3

I was struggling with the same problem - and sim-linking didn't help because the rbenv shims were getting in the way.

I'm afraid I didn't manage to solve it properly for rbenv, so I used the sledgehammer of swapping rbenv for chruby[1]. Which seems to be quite a bit simpler.

That allowed to me get the symlink working.

There's an 'upgrade' path from rbenv.

Steve

[1] https://github.com/postmodern/chruby

 

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