@hawkowl reported
Trac ID	trac#9405
Type	task
Created	2018-04-02 08:23:02Z

Currently, t.news has below-Twisted standards of code coverage, implementation (with one huuuuge ad-hoc state machine), comments, tests, etc. It's also not had any changes to the bulk of its code for 14 years, apart from what appears to be code removal 6 years ago and a handful of "twisted-wide" mechanical syntax changes. It's also unlikely to ever be ported to Python 3 unless someone were to improve the former issues (since the port would require 100%-as-possible code coverage).

I propose deprecating twisted.news on the condition that it doesn't have a maintainer, and un-deprecating it if a user of the code steps up to maintain it and brings it into line (vs one of the current development team taking on work keeping an ancient protocol on life support). If nobody steps up, then we remove it at the end of the deprecation period and encourage any remaining users to either pin to old Twisteds or simply vendor the code in their own codebase.

trac-id__9405 9405
type__task task
reporter__hawkowl hawkowl
priority__normal normal
milestone__None None
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status__closed closed
resolution__fixed fixed
component__news news
keywords__None None
time__1522657382254992 1522657382254992
changetime__1585366199047213 1585366199047213
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owner__hawkowl hawkowl