June Mid-month report

During the first half of the month, 24 tickets got some attention that they would not have received without the sponsored development. The result was 2 closed tickets and 22 other tickets unblocked for other developers to resume work on.

Also, as mentioned before, I've released a collection of tools for helping with twisted development on github and pypi.

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:

• #1518: trial option to exit on failure
• #5435: twisted.web.client.RedirectAgent doesn't inform caller of final URI

Other tickets I have reviewed:

• #1601: t.py.text.greedyWrap makes t.py.usage.Options.longdesc ugly
• #2835: _pollingfile calls pauseProducing on registered Pull producers
• #2839: _pollingfile fails to call stopProducing when connection is lost
• #3926: twisted.positioning – a better positioning framework
• #4929: Add LIST to IRCClient
• #5365: _pollingfile makes wrong assumption about WriteFile
• #5574: Add support for SOCK_DGRAM to IReactorSocket
• #5668: Support the OPT pseudo-record
• #5894: ckeygen –changepass truncates private keys to zero bytes
• #6064: Write tests for `twisted.internet.protocol.FileWrapper`
• #6116: twisted.web.http.stringToDatetime has incomplete test coverage
• #6135: twisted.web.http.HTTPFactory is incompletely tested
• #6137: Add unit tests for twisted.python.dist.getAllScripts
• #6217: iocpreactor events do not occur at the time they should
• #6393: Utility function to pretty-format list of things
• #6401: twisted.web.test.requesthelper.DummyChannel.TCP does not have the unregisterProducer method.
• #6475: twistd dns returns NXDomain for valid records when multiple zone names share a common suffix or parent domain
• #6484: Add unit tests for twisted.python.dist.get_setup_args
• #6491: test_pollingfile: producer data wrongly dropped when loseConnection() requested
• #6492: test_pollingfile: bufferEmpty sets producerPaused attribute on the producer instead of on itself
• #6493: test_pollingfile: writeSequence() doesn't pause the producer when outgoing buffer is full
• #6499: Teach chain certificates to SSL server endpoints string syntax

Announcing twisted-dev-tools

I'd like to announce the release of twisted-dev-tools. It is a project that collects various python scripts useful for developer working on twisted itself.

Right now, it contains the following tools.

force-build:

This is an updated version of force-builds.py from twisted-trac-integration. It has a different (more flexible) syntax.

If run from a git repository, where the current commit has been pushed to svn, running it with no arguments will automatically build the corresponding branch.

mkbranch

A helper for those using git: it creates a branch in svn, with a standard commit message.

Eventually, this should be enhanced to automatically fetch that commit, and switch to the branch locally.

review-tickets

Command-line list of tickets currently in review

fetch-ticket:

Command-line tool to view a ticket

get-attachemnt

Tool for interacting with trac attachments.

list

list all attachments on a given ticket

get

gets a gien ticket (defaults to the lat)

apply

applies that last attachment to the current git repository, and commits it with an appropriate message

Most of the functionality is also exposed as a python library, so custom scripts are possible as well.

The code is available at https://github.com/twisted/twisted-dev-tools and on pypi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twisted-dev-tools

May end-of-month report

The migration to the new machine has been successfully completed, and reports are, that trac is much faster now. Special thanks to Jonathan Stoppani, whose help was invaluable in preparing for the migration.

Since the migration, I've returned to doing ticket review, 11 tickets got some attention that they would not have received without the sponsored development. The result was 2 closed tickets and 9 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:

• #6443: setuid should be called in the child after forking the process in spawnProcess
• #6525: Constant docs have a mistake in an example

Other tickets I have reviewed:

• #3926: twisted.positioning – a better positioning framework
• #5387: Get rid of references and code specific to Python 2.4
• #5434: Web browser-like redirection Agent for twisted.web.client
• #5787: trial –order for selecting an order for running test cases
• #5795: Failure's startDebugMode should allow using a debugger other than pdb
• #5962: Clock.callLater(0, f) can lead to infinite loop
• #6042: twisted.protocols.test.test_basic doesn't following coding standard
• #6071: t.i.task.react's docstring doesn't mention the reactor argument
• #6166: Deprecate pickling support (__getstate__ and __setstate__) in twisted.internet._sslverfiy