November 2015 week 1 and 2 - SFC Sponsored Development

This is my report for the work done in the first 2 weeks of November as part of the 2015 Twisted Maintainer Fellowship program.
Important changes made in these 2 weeks:

• NPN and ALPN support for the TLS transport.
• Conch SSH client with diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 support and support for latest release of OpenSSH server.
• Prepare twisted.web for HTTP/2 supoprt.
• Start working on replacing PyCrypto usage with cryptography.
• Twisted review queues continues to be small and to have a review response time of less than 2 days.

Tickets reviewed and merged:

• #5976 - Remove assertRaises backport from Trial
• #6980 - doc-build should not build documentation with warnings.
• #7672 - Add diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange algorithm to conch
• #7860 - NPN and APNL support in Twisted.
• #8068 - twisted.python.urlpath.URLPath doesn't respect the default path of '/'
• #8072 - twisted.python.urlpath attributes are not mutables
• #8091 - detox support
• #8094 - Remove IStreamClientEndpointStringParser.
• #8095 - tap2deb/tap2rpm tests should not produce deprecation warnings
• #8096 - Jelly leaks set deprecation warnings.
• #8097 - MSN leaked deprecation warnings.
• #8100 - Use MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST in conch SSH client

Tickets reviewed and not merged yet:

• #6757 - Get client certificates for SSL server endpoints
• #7413 - Migrate conch.ssh to PyCA cryptography.
• #7998 - twisted.conch.ssh.keys Python 3 port
• #8025 - Make Trial work on Windows+Python3
• #8036 - Document the usage of the new logging system
• #8054 - Twisted's README and other top-level documents should be in rst format
• #8086 - eventFlatten not preserving the format
• #8090 - Thread pool does not create enough workers to handle multiple invocations of calllInThread
• #8099 - Port twisted.internet.serial to Python 3.
• #8105 - t.protocol.basic.IntNStringReceiver.dataReceived inconsistency

Thanks to theSoftware Freedom Conservancy 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.