First one:
Convert txtorcon to use txaio language: Python, asyncio, Twisted Likely Mentors: meejah
txtorcon is currently supports only Twisted users. Re-working txtorcon to use the txaio library would allow users to choose between Twisted and asyncio for the client code.
This would involve fairly extensive refactoring to txtorcon, as it currently makes heavy use of @inlineCallbacks which doesn't work with txaio. A prospective student should be very familiar with event-based programming in general, and be familiar with one of Twisted or asyncio. See also: https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon/issues/135
Second one:
Convert txtorcon to py.test language: Python, Twisted Likely Mentors: meejah
Currently txtorcon uses the built-in "unittest" module, as well as Twisted's Deferred-respecting extensions on top. However, meejah has found py.test's "fixture" approach to be much more powerful in other situations.
This project would be to port at least part of txtorcon's test-suite to use py.test style tests and fixtures and evaluate: are the tests easier to read? are there fewer lines of code? If so, the rest of the suite should be ported and txtorcon switched over to use py.test exclusively.
As some of txtorcon's tests aren't very well-written, this would take a prospective student who is very strong in unit-testing knowledge. As txtorcon is event-based, familiarity with that style of programming (preferrably with Twisted) is ideal. See also: https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon/issues/136