Rok Žlender earns maintainership of simpletest module for Drupal

Dries' landmark post regarding unit testing in Drupal reminds me that I have yet to announce a key transition in our project. I recently handed over maintainership of the simpletest project to Rok Žlender. Rok has been leading its development for over a year now, and the project has flourished under his guidance. We now have a large number of tests, and a largish number of contributors. Rok has earned this module, and I'm proud and happy to hand it to him on behalf of the Drupal community.

I created the simpletest module for Drupal on Feb 27, 2004. Here is an excerpt form the commit message:

Description
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A framework for running unit tests in Drupal.

Status
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No tests have been written. This framework should work though.

Writing Tests
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Please write some tests. I'm a bit new at this and haven't decided on a worthy approach.

I did write some tests a few weeks later, but the project received little attention. 18 months later Thomas Ilsche vastly improved the module during his Google SoC assignment and Rok pushed it even further the following year. The recent flurry of new tests caught me by surprise and I'm quite thankful for the awakening of Drupal to the value of unit testing.

A careful reading of Dries' announcement shows that he is not promising that unit tests will ship in Drupal 7. He is announcing that he supports the idea, but he expects the community to make it happen. So, the burden is on us to write and maintain the test suite. We'll also need some people to help with project module integration for drupal.org. Please join the discussion in the Unit Testing group on groups.drupal.org.