MbUnit and some news
MbUnit has achieved a lot in 2 and half years, it was around that time that Peli joined Microsoft and MbUnits future was undecided. Peli wanted to open-source MbUnit but with his new role was unable to do so. I asked Peli and Jamie if I could take this on and the code was released to Tigris and later (seeking SVN rather than the then CVS) it's present home on Google Code. Morten helped out hosting the Wiki and Defect tracker (though these are now also on Google Code). On Phil's suggestion we started a new website (although we lost MbUnit.org we gained MbUnit.com, MbUnit.co.uk and MbUnit.net) and recently added a lot of changes to the site including docs and blog lists etc. What started with a handful of people including myself, Jay and a few others has grown to a core commit group of 12 with a dedicated (and professional writer and editor) docs manager. Thanks to there hardwork and dedication in three years MbUnit has gone through two major releases, a minor release and is in the middle of a rewrite. Information on MbUnit can now be found on blogs, websites, books and articles. Folks talk about it at conferences and IMHO has neally caught NUnit up in the developer minds eye (I often see referances to NUnit, MbUnit, MsTest when talking about the collective unit test frameworks for .NET). I am very proud of MbUnit and how far it has come.
I tell you all of this for a reason, MbUnit a few months ago made some changes so that the commit group make decisions by vote so no one person makes decisions. In recent months I have had less and less time, with a baby on the way and a job crisis to deal with has really effected my spare time (the drop in my blogging has been no accident). All of this means I have had less and less time to spend on MbUnit but the project has still been moving at great pace. The rewrite of MbUnit, MbUnit 3, has been lead by Jeff Brown and he in my absence has lead the team and helped in the community to keep MbUnit going forward. With my wife now in single figure weeks before our baby arrives and a new job to settle into I announced last week that I will be stepping down as MbUnits lead and Jeff will in a formal capacity take it over. Jeff and the team are gearing up MbUnit for the v3 release and we recently passed the alpha 1 milestone, lots to look foward to in 2008. I will continue to contribute and blog where I can and next year I look foward to hopefully working with my local user groups.