Twisted Matrix Labs: December 2015 first half - TSF Sponsored Development

This is my report for the work done in the first half of Decemeber as part of the 2015 Twisted Maintainer Fellowship program.

Important changes made in these weeks:

* The Git migration plan was sent for approval
* Port of the AMP protocol to Python 3.

Tickets reviewed and merged

* #4811 - @unittest.expectedFailure decorator breaks trial
* #5704 - mkdir -p for FilePath
* #6833 - Port twisted.protocols.amp to Python 3
* #7998 - twisted.conch.ssh.keys should be ported to Python 3
* #8115 - Some Twisted tests use the deprecated "assertEquals" and similar
* #8119 - Remove gadfly support / tests from ADBAPI
* #8125 - LoopingCall.withCount with interval 0
* #8136 - Remove the deprecated twisted.web.http.Request.headers/request_headers
* #8139 - None of the ADBAPI tests actually run

Tickets reviewed and not merged yet

* #6757 - SSL server endpoints don't provide a way to verify client certificates
* #7460 - Add HTTP 2.0 support to twisted.web
* #7993 - 'twisted.web.wsgi' should be ported to Python 3
* #8107 - Add a custom pyflakes runner to ignore Twisted excepted files
* #8124 - Update @deprecated to work with properties and __init__
* #8129 - twisted.web.http_headers.Headers should work on bytes and Unicode
* #8137 - twisted.web server breaks with non-IP addresses
* #8138 - twisted.conch.endpoints._NewConnectionHelper leaks agent connection


Thanks to the Software Freedom Conservancy and all of the sponsors who made this possible, as well as to all the other Twisted developers who helped out by writing or reviewing code.