Sun, 29 Jul 2012
Twisted high scores
Living in the Boston area, I've had the chance to spend time with the lovely maintainers of the Twisted project.
Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework in Python. It's also a community of people for whom software is never good enough -- and they're right.
I visited the Twisted November sprint at the Smarterer.com office a few weeks ago and reviewed a ticket. So now I am on the Twisted high scores list for November!
It was one of the most rewarding short periods of time I've ever spent contributing to an open source project. I took someone's contribution and turned it into a patch, and also gave some feedback. This counted as reviewing a ticket, for which I was immediately and strongly socially rewarded: J.P. (exarkun) turned to me and say, "Thanks for contributing to Twisted."
An IRC bot pinged me with a note saying my ticket review was complete. And now I appear in the high scores list for November!
