ITA, The Twisted Foundation Rockstar

This is amazing: the Software Freedom Conservancy has just received a Twisted sponsorship check from ITA... and it's a big one: $20,000!

ITA is our first Diamond-level sponsor!

We are deeply grateful and excited that our project means so much to people and businesses.

We expect to be able to share some good news about Google, Canonical, and Microsoft in the next week or two, so stay tuned :-)

Twisted in the News

More Thoughts on Concurrency

The folks at isotoma took some time to thoughtfully respond to my inquiry for more information on the areas where they felt that Twisted was lacking in support of concurrency. This was a fabulous read. Really well done with some hilarious Steve Yegge quotes. I encourage everyone to check it out (but I won't spoil the ending :-) For related reading, you might want to check out these PDFs (thanks Allen Short!):

• Design Beyond Human Abilities
• Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future

Software Releases

The open source world has seen some Twisted-related software releases:

• foolscap
• BEEPy
• twlogging

Buildbot

We got a mention in Jon Resig's blog post about Mozilla Build and Test Integration as one of the projects that uses Buildbot. Sadly, he failed to mention that Buidlbot itself is built with Twisted ;-)

Press

Zenoss, a Founding Sponsor of the Twisted Software Foundation, has issues a press release about their support of Twisted. Additionally, we're now sponsored by three subsidiaries (Contentinople, Internet Evolution, and Light Reading) of the publishing megacorp UBM (formerly CMP).

Business

Divmod has a new web site up, where they announce that they're officially providing specialized Twisted services in the form of consulting (full disclosure: I work for Divmod).

Zenoss' Twisted Press Release

Get it while it's hot: Zenoss Announces Membership in the TSF.

It's exciting to see companies supporting Twisted like this; increasing exposure to the community's efforts is one of the best things that can be done by organizations using Twisted.

Thanks Zenoss!

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Twisted in the News

An Inflection Point

In a recent blog post, the London-based Isotoma consulting firm gave Twisted a mention. Their post was a commentary on Tim Bray's Multi-Inflection-Point Alert, a concise run-down on what's going on with internet tech, as he puts, "right now."

Isotoma had this to say:

"We’re a lot further down this particular inflection curve than most, I think. We make heavy use of Twisted, a single-threaded cooperatively multitasking network programming system that specifically addresses the threading problem."

They went on to mention that it doesn't seem like a complete solution. I'd love to hear their comments on where they find it lacking, what they'd like to see supported -- either specific features or general thoughts on the future of computing in the consulting industry.


Imitation and Flattery

Ruby has something called EventMachine and was described as implementing the "Twisted-introduced" deferred pattern in a nutrun post.


Mashed and Twisted?

Twisted and Nevow made a mashup list on InnovationStartups' blog of 120+ Web Development Resources. Also on the list were launchpad, rBuilder, Ohloh, Ruby on Rails, MochiKit, Django and Zope.


Scratch that Itch!

Jesse Noller blogs about Bruce Eckle's latest Twisted mention, saying "Dangit Bruce gave me the twisted itch again."

Bruce Eckle talks about Concurrency with Python, Twisted, and Flex in his Artima Developer post, where he also mentions PyAMF (which I helped update the Twisted docs for :-)). Bruce takes a quick look at asynchronous programming, object brokering with Twisted, and XML-RPC. I wish he'd used twisted.application.service instead of running the reactor directly, but hey -- it's a great Twisted post about stuff that lots of people are using right now :-)


New Users

Paul Stevens blogged about setting up Twisted on his mac. He's now off to the races :-) Good luck, Paul! Be sure to stop by IRC and/or post messages on the mail list with questions...

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The Twisted Show: Episode 3

In our third installment, we have interviewed Synthesis Studios of Boston, MA. Co-founder Raffi Krikorian gave a fabulous interview with some phenomenal Twisted sound bites. We'll definitely be quoting him!

One of my favorite bits was the value Raffi sees in Twisted as a tool for improving the actual mind of the software developer; in particular, finding "outside the box" solutions to challenging problems.

Check out the interview from either the wiki page or the Twisted Show blog...

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April 20th Sprint Report

Hello all,

The first TSF sponsored Twisted sprint is done. Here's a quick rundown of some of the things that happened (this is the same summary as I sent to the mailing list so you can skip it if you already read it there).

• Glyph Lefkowitz made a huge dent in the current review queue, dealing with more than half of the outstanding tickets.
• After some discussion about the value of a bugfix-only release vs a normal bugfix and feature enhancement release, Christopher Armstrong got the wheels rolling on 8.1.0 (which will be of the latter type). You probably already saw the pre1 announcement. Give it a spin!
• Paul Swartz continued to strive towards the goal of Twisted Conch being as soft and cuddly as a little bunny rabbit.
• Ying Li worked on permission and ownership features for FilePath.
• Jeff Mancuso came by for a while and talked about Twisted Conch performance (and did some benchmarks) and SFTP access control issues.
• Roland Hedberg got his hands dirty in pyOpenSSL working on adding an API to get arbitrary X509v3 extensions.
• Itamar Shtull-Trauring helped out all around.
• I finished fixing some reactor startup and shutdown issues introduced in 8.0.
  

We also discussed Twisted's backwards compatibility policy, guided mostly by Jonathan Lange's email of the 18th to this list, with the goal of creating an official document.

The next sprint is tentatively scheduled for May 18th at the Divmod office.

Founding Sponsors Window Closes May 15th

Current Founding Sponsors: You guys rock! Thanks!

Potential Founding sponsors: You too can rock, but you only have a limited window of opportunity in which to do so!

We were going to set the deadline to April 30th, but we've been so busy working with those of you that have been sponsoring that we didn't get the chance (just look at those awesome logos on the front page!) to send out an email. We wanted to provide people and companies with a 30 day notice, so May 15th it is.

Thanks again, everyone -- you are helping make Twisted a thriving project that gives you more and more of what you need.

Originally posted on the Twisted Python mail list.

Update: Thanks to feedback from Grig Gheorghiu, we now have two domains that direct to the TSF page:

• twistedsoftwarefoundation.org
• tsf.name

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