Open Source Projects

I actively contribute to several open source projects in my free time. I am also employed to work on a handful of other open source projects. I’m often asked which projects I actually work on and I thought I would dedicate a portion of my website to the complete list. Unless noted, everything below I work on in my free time.

I am a core developer/maintainer of:

• Requests

  One of Python’s most popular HTTP libraries.

• urllib3

  Another of Python’s most popular HTTP libraries (also a dependency of Requests).

• chardet

  A library written by Mark Pilgrim used to detect the character encoding of some text (also a dependency of Requests).

• Flake8

  One of Python’s most popular linters and style guide enforcers.

• McCabe

  A library that analyzes the McCabe Complexity of code which was originally authored by Ned Batchelder (also a dependency of Flake8).

• PyFlakes

  A command-line tool and library that searches for lint and errors in code (also a dependency of Flake8).

• PyCodestyle (formerly pep8)

  A command-line tool and library that enforces style which is roughly in agreement with PEP-0008 (also a dependency of Flake8).

• Twine

  A command-line tool that securely uploads packages to the Python Package Index using Requests.

• SQLObject

  A database-independent library written by Ian Bicking and mostly maintained by Oleg Broytman which provides a object-relational mapper. I helped with the effort to add Python 3 compatibility.

• Many (authentication) plugins for Requests:

  • requests-ntlm
  • requests-kerberos

• Extensions for Flake8

  • pep8-naming
  • flake8-docstrings

• PDFKit

  A library that also provides Rack Middleware to allow users to convert HTML to PDFs via wkHTMLtoPDF.

• certifi

  A package of Mozilla’s CA certificates trust bundle for Python.

• httplib2

  A library pre-dating Requests meant to replace the standard library’s httplib.

I have authored:

• github3.py

  A library for interacting with version 3 of GitHub’s API. This is maintained with the help of:

  • Barry Morrison
  • Matt Chung

• uritemplate.py

  A library for parsing and expanding URI Templates as defined in RFC 6570.

• rfc3986

  A library for parsing, validating, and normalizing URIs as defined in RFC 3986.

• The Requests Toolbelt

  A library for common utilities and patterns that are useful for Requests users but do not belong in the Requests library.

• Betamax

  A library for writing integration tests for code that uses Requests. This was inspired by Ruby’s VCR.

• Libraries that extend the usefulness of Betamax:

  • betamax-serializers
  • betamax-matchers

OpenStack

I am also paid to work on some OpenStack projects. As part of that work I am a core reviewer of:

• The Glance Project:
  • Glance
  • python-glanceclient
  • glance_store
  • Glance Specifications

I am paid to contribute to OpenStack Ansible which is a project consisting of several Ansible role repositories and playbooks to deploy OpenStack in LXC containers using the Rackspace Private Cloud reference architecture.

I am also paid to contribute to rpc-openstack which is another collection of Ansible roles and playbooks to deploy the Rackspace Private Cloud product that I am employed to work on.

I am also a core reviewer of Hacking – the style guide of OpenStack implemented as an extension of Flake8 – but am not paid to work on that.

I am also an OpenStack Security Group member working as a core reviewer of Bandit – a static security analysis tool for Python – but am not paid to work on this either.

OpenStack presently uses the following projects (from the list above) in one capacity or another:

• Betamax
• httplib2
• Requests
• requests-kerberos
• rfc3986
• urllib3
• Flake8
• flake8-docstrings
• McCabe
• PyFlakes
• PyCodestyle

And most OpenStack projects use Hacking and Bandit as well.

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This was last updated: 2016 May 22