29 Mar 2010 Selenium Grid Transitioned to a New Leadership: Congrats to Kevin Menard!

I am delighted to announce that Selenium Grid has now transitioned to new leadership. Congrats to Kevin Menard, Selenium Grid’s new maintainer.

The project is really blessed because a lot of talented people volunteered to maintain it and take Selenium Grid to the next level. In the end, we still had to pick someone, and we believed that Kevin was the best candidate since:

• Kevin has already demonstrated his commitment to Selenium Grid by contributing patches to the project

• Kevin has daily incentive in making Selenium Grid a better product: His startup relies on Selenium Grid

• Kevin has real world experience with the problem Selenium Grid is trying to solve: 100+ instances running daily on EC2

• Kevin has Open Source experience as a committer on Apache Tapestry and Apache Cayenne

• Kevin has 4 years of experience with Selenium and had already written an in-house version of Selenium Grid before Selenium Grid even existed

• Kevin has experience with the entire ecosystem gravitating around Selenium Grid: Java, TestNG, Ruby, JRuby, Python, even C++ and even assembly!

So please join me in congratulating Kevin. I will let him communicate the next steps and his vision for the project. In any case, I am excited that the project is in good hands and I am super psyched about Selenium Grid’s future!