[Twisted-Python] Encouraging New Reviewers (was: Re: something about Github, as all threads about fostering community now start on that subject)

2013-08-26 Thread Glyph
On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Richard Wall wrote: > 1. Encourage new code reviewers -- various people have said they'd do >code reviews but are unsure of the process or feel unqualified to >comment on other people's code. So: I find that there are three major impediments to encouraging ne

[Twisted-Python] Advice on porting Python application to Twisted

2013-08-26 Thread Matthew Humphrey
I recently created a small automated, remote (via web) controlled pet feeder using a Raspberry Pi single-board computer. The software is all in Python, and uses the simple HTTP server that is part of the Python libraries. I discovered Twisted about 2/3 of the way through the project, and now that I

Re: [Twisted-Python] Interesting plot on new author contributions post-Github for several Python packages

2013-08-26 Thread Richard Wall
On 26/08/2013, Terry Jones wrote: > This doesn't prove anything, but I think the first plot at > http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/09/20/why-python-is-the-last/ is quite > provocative. Terry, I don't think the problem is "too few contributors". A big problem is that there are too few reviewers

Re: [Twisted-Python] Failure.getTraceback and Unicode

2013-08-26 Thread exarkun
On 04:24 pm, tobias.oberst...@tavendo.de wrote: Hi, The code for "getTraceback" http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/tags/releases/twisted-13.1.0/twisted/python/failure.py#L529 uses a native version of StringIO http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/tags/releases/twisted-13.1.0/twisted/python

[Twisted-Python] Failure.getTraceback and Unicode

2013-08-26 Thread Tobias Oberstein
Hi, The code for "getTraceback" http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/tags/releases/twisted-13.1.0/twisted/python/failure.py#L529 uses a native version of StringIO http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/tags/releases/twisted-13.1.0/twisted/python/failure.py#L23 However, cStringIO: "Unlike the

[Twisted-Python] Interesting plot on new author contributions post-Github for several Python packages

2013-08-26 Thread Terry Jones
This doesn't prove anything, but I think the first plot at http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/09/20/why-python-is-the-last/ is quite provocative. Semi-related: I made a tiny optimization to jQuery a couple of months ago as a completely unknown first-time contributor. The time from doing the git cl