I can’t find the link now but I read an article recently about how HN comments are super easy to generate but contribute basically zero, and people who create software or submit awesome patches are doing a ton of work and not getting the recognition they deserve.
I thought it would be nice to try and change that a bit by submitting interesting bits of code, new patches, or mailing list discussions to the Lobste.rs front page, so we can get to know the people and the projects that are doing cool things.
I’ll start, I guess - I’ve been working for a few months on adding connect timeout support to python-requests. I’ve merged it to the downstream library urllib3: https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/pull/231 and currently working on the interface for requests with the library maintainers: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/1801
I’m kinda amazed that Requests has gone this long without timeout support. I primarily use built-in libraries where I can, but that would’ve been a showstopper for me from the beginning. Good work!
To be clear it’s separate support for connect and read timeouts.
A meta comment: can we get ‘ask’ and ‘show’ tags for Lobsters?
The project tag is usually used for “show Lobsters” things.