Summary of July/August TSF Sponsored Twisted Development

I've just completed the third two-week period of TSF sponsored Twisted development.

Tickets I worked on during this period:

#686 - [TEST] startTLS is broken if there's already data in the outgoing buffer.
#966 - [PATCH] Add --umask option to twistd
#1200 - twisted.test.test_internet calls reactor.iterate()
#1493 - static File web module doesn't support byte ranges
#2276 - Changes to TwistedNames to make it support NAPTR records
#2338 - trial should handle concurrent usage in the same directory gracefully
#2753 - twisted.web WSGI support
#2790 - UDP Transport write() raises socket.error EWOULDBLOCK
#2845 - twisted.internet.thread._putResultInDeferred should be public
#2931 - FilePath.setContent writes and renames but does not sync
#3342 - twisted.names dns-spoofing vulnerability
#3347 - twisted.names dns-spoofing vulnerability (birthday paradox)
#3367 - twisted.python.lockfile.FilesystemLock.lock fails with EEXIST

Tickets I reviewed during this period:

#637 - Odd filenaming in tutorial/intro.xhtml
#638 - Allow overriding twistd's logging options
#689 - twistd man page needs a section on signals
#1246 - reactor.callWhenRunning is not in the Using Processes document
#1253 - Create index.xhtml files for non-core doc trees
#1490 - Allow twistd to "run" packages_ e.g. 'twistd run mypackage --port 8080'
#1821 - Turn deferredgenerator wiki page into howto
#1888 - Review man pages
#1971 - Links in SEE ALSO section of doc/lore/man/lore.1 are bogus
#2208 - Standardize on the Python shebang line
#2375 - these objects' docstrings are not proper epytext:
#2438 - Get rid of references to maintainer email addresses from code
#2607 - conch.checks.SSHPublicKeyDatabase calls os.seteuid/os.setegid even if it's not necessary
#3244 - runInteraction exceptions are swallowed if rollback fails
#3254 - twisted.python.deprecate does the wrong thing for methods
#3285 - Add ISUPPORT implementation for irc.py
#3332 - SSHAgent implementation_ unit tests
#3355 - t.application.app.AppProfiler handles options oddly
#3365 - a few more IRCClient docstrings
#3366 - add IRCClient.back()
#3377 - words.protocol - irc.py assumes nickchange to be successful before server ack

Allen Short also helped out with a few reviews this time. Thijs Triemstra, a new Twisted contributor, has also been very active lately working though documentation tickets and making great headway.

Twisted's open ticket count also fell below 1100 this week. For the last three months, for the first time ever, we've been able to consistently resolve more tickets than have been filed.

Thanks to the SFC (<http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/>) and all of the sponsors (<http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TSF/FoundingSponsors>) who made this possible, as well as to all the other Twisted developers who helped out by writing or reviewing code.