Friday, July 19, 2013

July Report

This will be my last report, until the beginning of September. I have, for many years, been a volunteer at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. For the next month, I will be busy setting it up (and then taking it down, and so will not have time to devote to twisted.

This month, 23 tickets got some attention that they would not have received without the sponsored development. The result was 5 closed tickets and 11 other tickets unblocked for other developers to resume work on.

This month, I made a number of improvements to the buildobt:

  • Switched most of the buildslaves to use git to checkout the source.
  • All the git-using builders merge to trunk, before running tests, so the tests results reflect the code as it would be merged. In particular, all the lint steps should now accurately report only the regressions relative to current trunk of the merged result.
  • I added a bunch of new builders on VMs provided by Rackspace (thanks to Jesse Noller) and the Fedora Project (thanks to Seth Vidal). These cover all recent versions of Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and RHEL. As part of this, I automated the deployment of buildslaves, (currently only Debian and Fedora derivatives are supported).

This work is made possible by the sponsorship of individuals and organizations which have donated to the Twisted project, part of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, and develop open source software. Thanks!

The tickets I reviewed, that have now been closed:

Other tickets I have reviewed:

Tickets I have worked on:

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Introducing our new Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women interns

This year as part of the Outreach Program for Women and Google Summer of Code we have three summer interns working on Twisted. We are pleased to welcome them to our development community:

Stacey Sern ("shira" on IRC) is from New Jersey, USA. She is returning to programming after a ten year hiatus to take care of her family. Previously, she developed real-time embedded software in C and C++ in the telecom industry. This past winter, she participated in Hacker School where she used Twisted for a BitTorrent client and submitted her first Twisted patches. Stacey will be working on supporting Twisted's mail infrastructure.

Kai Zhang ("kaizhang" on IRC) is 24 years old graduate student from China who likes playing soccer. Kai is working on Deferred cancellation, implementing the API for all the various sources of Deferreds in Twisted.

Shiyao Ma ("introom" on IRC) is a senior student of Tsinghua University, P.R.C.. Shiyao will continue on to a PhD program in Hong Kong UST this September, doing research on wireless sensor network. Shiyao's hobbies range from programming to Japanese animation. This summer Shiyao will be working on integrating Twisted with the Parsley parser-generator, and any necessary improvements to Parsley.


June End-month report

I spent the majority of my time in the last half of the month, clearing the review queue, from 45 tickets when I started to a low of 19 tickets. All told, 34 tickets got some attention that they would not have received without the sponsored development. The result was 9 closed tickets and 22 other tickets unblocked for other developers to resume work on.

This work is made possible by the sponsorship of individuals and organizations which have donated to the Twisted project, part of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, and develop open source software. Thanks!

The tickets I reviewed, that have now been closed:

Other tickets I have reviewed:

Tickets I have worked on: