[Devel] I will be offline this weekend -- at gsoc mentors summit

[Asheesh Laroia]

Excerpts from Asheesh Laroia's message of Sat Oct 23 06:44:41 +0000 2010:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I will be offline this weekend, meaning out of IRC, because I will be at the 
> Summer of Code mentors summit in Mountain View, CA. I will be reading 
> email (though slowly)!
> 
> I have been working on a branch of the profile import code that is 
> event-driven, unlike the code we have now. If we can switch our networking code 
> to an event-driven model, we can use Twisted to get the pages and dramatically 
> increase the reliability of the profile importer. Which would be awesome, and 
> hopefully bring the uncompleted DIAs to an end. The branch is "half" finished 
> and on my laptop, and I will try to push the branch somehwere during the 
> weekend.
> 
> It's been an interesting, successful challenge to rework our import code this 
> way, so some of you might feel like picking up where I've left off. If not, 
> I'll get back on it early next week.

I'm back online! Wow that was a good event.

And wow, rewriting all the networking code to be event-driven is a lot of
work. I think it will be worth it, since it makes it much more testable.

I'll push a version of that soon, hopefully tomorrow.

-- Asheesh.