Mary Gardiner wrote, utterly without influence from burning

This is my resignation as Twisted's lead documentation person.

Rest assured I'm not resigning due to any subset of: burning disillusionment, raging anger, or rampaging untreated mental illness. Rather, I have a bundle of other projects, and they're increasingly unrelated to Twisted, which means that I'm not using it for my own projects, and, sadly, I don't have the energy left over to task switch into an unrelated project enough to lead part of it.

I'm also, as it turns out, much more interested in reviewing and/or editing documentation than I am in writing it. The upside of this is that I'll continue to make myself available as a reviewer of documentation patches and/or an editor, if needed. Feel free to assign bugs on this basis. (I will probably not be reading the mailing list, but I don't make myself difficult to find on IRC.) I will unassign other bugs from myself soon.

This obviously leaves gaping holes in the greater Twisted universe for people anxious to advertise the glory of Twisted to the admiring masses. Do submit some documentation patches... It also leaves a vacancy for someone who is willing to be caretaker for the documentation as a whole, fixing minor bugs, farming out work and rearranging things according to their taste. Apply here, I suspect :)

Mary, this Twisted user for one really appreciates the efforts you've put forth. Indeed, as one of the biggest complainers about Twisted's docs, I probably appreciate those efforts more than many users. (That sounds backwards until you think about it for a while, like a lot of legal language.) I'm thinking about suggesting (gasp!) myself as your replacement. The logical, responsible part of my brain is telling me that I'm insane for doing this. But there's another part of my brain that has an illogical, probably unhealthy fascination with Twisted and is raising its hand and squirming on the uncomfortable wooden schooldesk chair with those huge uncomfortable screw heads sticking out, yelling "Call on me! Call on me!" As a registered patent agent (http://eepatents.com), I do a lot of writing as part of my work and bill quite a bit per hour for doing so. (Here that logical, responsible part is screaming, "So WHY do you want to do more writing for FREE?") I have complained and whined about the, shall we say "mixed," state of Twisted's docs for years now on #twisted and am intrigued by the idea of putting my mouth (dictation) where my mouth (complaints) is. Plus, (branch) commit access would be kind of cool for writing those docstrings where I just can't stand seeing those glaring holes right below "def" or "class"... It goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway) that there is and would be absolutely no professional relationship between me and the Twisted project. (Most free software types aren't all that enamored with patents, anyhow...) I have kind of enjoyed the decidedly unprofessional relationship that has developed on #twisted, though. Comments welcome. Any positive ones will likely be viewed with suspicion and will raise pangs of regret at my making this rash posting. The negative ones will likely be viewed with relief, at least by the aforementioned logical, responsible part... Best regards, Ed Suominen Logical, responsible patent agent Inexplicably passionate Twisted dabbler