[Twisted-Python] April 20th Sprint Report
Duncan McGreggor
duncan.mcgreggor at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 22:52:48 MDT 2008
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:03 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The first TSF sponsored Twisted sprint is done. Here's a quick rundown of
> some of the things that happened.
>
> * 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.
>
> Jean-Paul
JP,
Thanks for writing this up! And thanks to the Twisted folks who were
able to sprint, either virtually or in meatspace. I was off the nets
this weekend, so this was really great to read :-)
d
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