Re: Selenium Open Source Development - CSU Chico
Simon Stewart
Sorry for the slow reply. It sounds like a fun course!
The community for the selenium project is largely centred on our three
google groups (selenium-users which is high traffic and covers the
full range of APIs and experience levels, webdriver, which is medium
traffic and tends to focus on the webdriver APIs and
selenium-developers, where the main discussion about the project and
technical issues occur)
We also have a very active IRC channel (#selenium on freenode), which
is definitely worth logging on to if you're getting into the codebase.
Most of the developers drop in there on a regular basis and we're a
friendly bunch (well, I think so). Lots of people on that channel are
there frequently, so there's a reasonable amount of banter and
somewhat off-topic conversations (notably, we link to music videos on
YouTube surprisingly often) I think it's a fun place to be.
The approval process for changes is pretty lightweight: create a patch
and attach it to an issue, and sign the CLA to acknowledge that we can
apply your patch. The team are largely doing this for the love of the
project, so feel free to pop onto the selenium-developers group or the
IRC channel and let us know that there's a patch to apply. When it's
checked into the code base, we tend to give credit. Once we've seen a
few good patches, and you've been credited for them, it's easy to get
the commit bit.
We used to maintain a list of bugs that didn't require a huge amount
of experience in our issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/list?q=label:GettingInvolved
If there's a bug or an issue that's particularly irksome for you,
that's also a great place to get started.
Finally, the project wiki on the google code site has a lot of
information about the structure of the various drivers, and I wrote a
chapter for a book about it too:
http://www.aosabook.org/en/selenium.html
HTH,
Simon
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Jared Gilmore <dii...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Simon and the Selenium Developers team,
>
> I hope we sent this email to the correct contact(s). My name is Jared
> Gilmore, and with Tim McNally and Kyle Graves, we're all senior level
> students at California State University Chico (in Chico, California). We're
> all enrolled in a senior level Software Engineering class and we've been
> tasked with working on an open source project and we've expressed a lot of
> interest in working on Selenium. We figured our best route would be to
> contact you first to get some feedback on the project community, approval
> process (for solutions) and potentially what you think would be a good
> project for us to work on. Ideally we'd like to get our feet wet with some
> current bugs or quick feature additions to learn the code and how everything
> is setup. If you would be so kind to respond to us as soon as possible with
> this information, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your
> time!
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jared, Tim, and Kyle
Paul Grandjean
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