Stem devs,
This is a review of Stem commits from 2012-12-11 through 2012-12-21.
Damian, you are very good at documentation, concise and informative. I tend to hit one or the other, but not both. I recognize when someone gets the right mix. Good work.
I, too, have found logging.basicConfig[0] hides too much about how it works and, now, I roll my own logging handler early.
Would GETINFO/GETCONF cache hit logging[1] benefit from log_once? Or even something between log and log_once (e.g. rate_limited_log)?
Is there any particular reason for moving away from readthedocs.org? I'm curious if there was more than a desire to self-host as much as possible.
Good work on the Controller.get_conf() clean-up[2]. This is easier to code against with the predictable return types. I have already written a new method with this and always getting a list (event empty) reduces the amount of error checking I had to do.
The heartbeat time tracking is a good idea[3]. But, I wonder, should this bother with an accessor method? Could this work as just well as an (non-callable) attribute?
[0]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commit/a7b275a3d64301da4d23137dbadd4842cc7a041f
[1]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commit/9b5ff19be35ebbf8c75772a63406ba23762b37de
[2]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commit/5b45d3125c811067d7c3ba0a11e324423c88d925
[3]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commit/6bc92816dc4356a204fdde0f160ee344875143a3
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Sean Robinson