[Twisted-Python] Twisted O'Reilly Book

[James Y Knight]

On Aug 2, 2004, at 5:02 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:38:51PM -0700, Jasper Phillips wrote:
>
>> It's true that there are alot of crappy technical books and many 
>> authors
>> make hardly anything.  However Twisted seems to me like it would buck 
>> that
>> trend -- I know I'd be interested in such a book if it were done well.
>
> If chief developers don't have time to work on Twisted, could a 
> donation fund
> help? (Nevermind the book, just for development). I see there's no 
> PayPal
> donate button on the main page nor in the documentation.
>
> I understand Bittorrent only started attracting donations when that 
> button got
> enough eyeballage.
>
> Just a thought,

I doubt that would help much. Most twisted developers are employed 
[many by divmod. bad divmod, stealing all the twisted developers! ;)], 
and thus, spend most of the time writing code for their employer rather 
than twisted. Of course, both overlap sometimes, which is always good. 
A donations button seems like it would only make sense if people 
contributed a large enough amount of money to coerce someone who is 
employed to cease being, and work on twisted more, instead. That seems 
unlikely. Perhaps others feel differently about it, though.

James