Summary of October Sponsored Twisted Development

Hello again,

I've just spent another two weeks on sponsored Twisted development. This round sees 25 tickets resolved. Considering the fact that two tickets in particular took up a lot of development time, I'm pretty happy with this progress. I did a lot of reviews for other people this time around. Here are some of the more interesting things developed by other people to which I gave the thumbs up:

#2026 - Edit the twisted.internet docstring to make contents clearer
#2902 - bad flag value in twisted.conch.ssh.filetransfer
#3335 - FTPClient should support renaming files
#3491 - FTPClient should support deleting files
#3500 - Add directory creation method to FTPClient

(The other tickets I reviewed which weren't quite as as interesting were: #532 #745 #1853 #2281 #2375 #2682 #2748 #3197 #3216 #3315 #3381 #3393 #3439 #3464 #3466 #3471 #3482 #3486 #3504 #3505 #3507)

And here are some of the more interesting ones I worked on myself (bold tickets are now closed):

#886 - Rewrite twisted.web.client.getPage to support streaming of result data and returning headers etc
#2346 - Header generation not conforming to RFC822 and RFC2046
#2605 - stdlib unittest change breaks a trial test
#3298 - twisted.internet.defer.FirstError masks errors when logged
#3329 - HTTP's #(...) syntax allows null contents
#3477 - BinaryBoxProtocol.makeConnection calls startReceivingBoxes too early
#3478 - AMP should enforce MAX_KEY_LENGTH in the protocol parser
#3487 - Add TestCase.flushWarnings

(The other slightly less exciting tickets I worked were: #3169 #3197 #3216 #3515 #3519)

#3487 and #886 took up a lot of my time this round. With #3487 resolved, the way is clear for the next Twisted release to run well on Python 2.6 (ie, there are no more known issues). Once I got that out of the way, I moved back to web issues. #886 is going to represent a big step towards having a good HTTP client API in Twisted. Anyone who has tried to use twisted.web.client for anything non-trivial knows how much work is needed in this area. :)

As usual, this work is made possible by the SFC and all of the sponsors who made this possible, as well as to all the other Twisted developers who helped out by writing or reviewing code!

That's all until next time.