From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-03-01T08:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeRIDE project - Call for help

Laurent Julliard wrote:
> - Testing, testing, testing...: testers are
> badly needed. By testers I mean people that use FreeRIDE but are also
> willing to identify the root cause of a bug and fix it. I use FreeRIDE
> myself for FreeRIDE development but I tend to always do the same
> operations which is not o good way of testing.

Ok, I use Emacs with ruby-mode.  I've looked at FreeRIDE before, but I'm 
not sure what there is there that would make me want to use it instead 
of Emacs.

You might get more people to help out with testing if you could provide 
some compelling reasons why they should use FreeRIDE.  Even if those 
features are, as yet, over the horizon.  If I knew I could have a Ruby 
editor with all the keystrokes of Emacs, but customizable in Ruby 
instead of lisp, I'd jump in a second... but it doesn't look like that's 
what FreeRIDE is, or what it aims to be.

So, what's your sales pitch?  :)

Ben