November 2015 week 3 and 4 - SFC Sponsored Development

This is my report for the work done in the last weeks of November as part of the 2015 Twisted Maintainer Fellowship program.

We continue to have a small waiting line for the review queue. In general the initial review response time was below 24 hours, and delayed mainly due to time zones.

Important changes made in these weeks:

* Release of Twisted 15.5.0
* Serial port support was ported to Python 3.
* SSH client and server now support SHA2 HMAC.

Tickets reviewed and merged

#6082 - Make test_updateWithKeywords work on Python 3
#6842 - Dead link in documentation of t.i._dumbwin32proc
#6978 - rst markup bugs in docs
#7668 - Links to Dive into Python in the testing documentation are dead
#7881 - Misleading example in Deferred Intro
#7944 - Typo in docs/core/howto/logger.rst
#7791 - Error in options howto doc
#8050 - Release Twisted 15.5
#8070 - Twisted web client IPV6 DNS lookup failed
#8099 - Port twisted.internet.serial to Python 3.
#8101 - Malformed HTTP Header causes exception in twisted.web.http server
#8102 - Malformed HTTP method causes exception in twisted.web.http server/Resource.render
#8104 - Fix documentation of default thread pool size
#8106 - Add Python 3.5 to our tox config.
#8108 - conch: support hmac-sha2-256 and hmac-sha2-512

Tickets reviewed and not merged yet

#5789 - Remove usage of UserDict
#6757 - SSL server endpoints don't provide a way to verify client certificates
#7050 - Remove long deprecated _bwHack parameter
#7460 - HTTP2 inital patch
#7879 - documentation incorrectly says that Agent does not do certificate validation in Agent
#7926 - TLSMemoryBIOProtocol.loseConnection does not work properly
#7998 - twisted.conch.ssh.keys should be ported to Python 3
#8009 - twisted.web.twcgi should be ported to Python 3
#8077 - Session cookie under python3 never found
#8115 - Some Twisted tests use the deprecated "assertEquals" and similar
#8125 - LoopingCall.withCount with interval 0
#8126 - Improvements to Twisted’s SMTP server
#8127 - Support a user defined facility when using syslog
#8128 - ESMTP class can't be usefully subclassed to add extensions
#8129 - twisted.web.http_headers.Headers should work on bytes and Unicode

Thanks to the Software 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.