[Twisted-Python] twisted and twisted-infra organizations on GitHub

[Gelin Yan]

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> Many developers don't care about working on the tooling themselves
> either.  Why should they have to create a custom filter rather than you?
>
> This is not to be dismissive of your interest in our development tooling.
> The fact that you are working on maintaining it is of *great* benefit to
> all other twisted developers, but the *reason* it is of great benefit is
> expressly because they do not have to care so much about it any more :).
>
> The idea behind the current structure is that the twisted org includes
> application code that users use, so if a user looks at it they get a
> coherent listing of things (including twisted itself) that they might want
> to use.  The infra repository lists tools that we use to develop twisted,
> not things that users would be interested in downloading themselves, unless
> they want to develop another project like Twisted (which is quite a
> different thing from _using_ twisted or its ecosystem).
>
> In any case, while I hate to say this because, again, it sounds really
> dismissive, it sounds to me like you need to configure your github client
> somehow to match your personal tastes, rather than restructure the project
> to accommodate them.  The alternative sounds like a terrible confusing mess
> to me for first-time contributors and new users, and I think they are
> inherently less able to create filters and customize their experience, so
> they should see the orgs as they are presently.
>
> (There may still be some call for an "ecosystem" repository; I don't know
> how many Twisted developers really care about txmongo at all.  But I think
> it's nice to see so much ecosystem stuff in one place.)
>
> -glyph
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Hi Glyph

     off-topic a bit. I care about txmongo. I actually plan to use it in
production soon.

Regards

gelin yan
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