I’m going to take a somewhat different tack in this monthly report, to talk a bit about some of the bigger picture about where I see Encode headed towards.
Nominally our sponsorships are for Django REST framework, but in terms of the work I’ve been putting out it’s been a very long time since that’s been where the majority of my effort has tended to be focused.
Over the last couple of years, alongside maintenance work on REST framework, I’ve also been:
uvicorn web-server, and the starlette web framework.httpx, bringing all the good API work that requests established, while also adding a range of new features - HTTP/2 support, both sync and async variants including asyncio, trio, and curio, type annotations throughout, a really clear client/networking API layer between httpx and the lower-level httpcore package.As well as exploring a number of other avenues.
One of the incomparable benefits of the collaborative sponsorship approach has been that I’m able to put my time and attention wherever it appears to be most valuable.
Having a relationship of trust with our sponsors allows me to focus on trying to benefit the community as effectively as possible, without always having to tie my time down to a predetermined goal.
My own intuition here is that the return on investment that this approach has yielded far greater returns for the community, than a more tightly goal-oriented approach would have provided.
With that in mind, there seems to be a few aspects I could do with working towards:
In the short term tho, I’ll simply be spending some time getting back on track with working on HTTPX, having taken some time off due to family circumstances.
With thanks as ever to all our wonderful sponsors, maintainers & contributors.
— Tom Christie, 11th November, 2020.