There has been a lot of thinking recently about the next steps for gabbi. The ideas being considered are mostly associated with making gabbi more flexible and more extensible and will introduce some backwards incompatible features. Thus there will need to be a version 2.0.

When gabbi was born …

Gabbi 1.7.0 has been released with a new feature for handling URLs and request methods. Based on feedback during a sneak preview at PyconUK 2015, people are going to like it.

The original way to express a request in a gabbi test looked like this:

tests:
    - name: get …

A talk at day one of PyconUK has stirred some thoughts about politics in the OpenStack community that I hope by writing down I can gain some clarity and maybe do something to improve the situation. Thus far the connections between the thoughts are rather weak.

That talk made the …

I'm at PyconUK 2015 and took a few notes from the first day. Here they are.

PyconUK lives up to its reputation for being very friendly and very inclusive. There's a great diversity of people and topics present.

The most informative talk was Larry Hastings giving a very cogent explanation …