Jackie came to Chicago last week.  In an effort to increase management transparency, I'll note that we both agreed that matching unitards would serve as a wonderful basis for any kind of coordinated TOPP Halloween costume.  Or something with those springy/cloth play tubes.  I feel like the play tubes are a great foundation for any number of costumes.  If the unitards don't happen -- though I'm sure they will, and that you'll all thank me for coming up with the idea -- and then if you don't have a costume idea, you should really use the play tube idea.  Especially if you can pair with someone else.  Paired costumes are automatically 100% more cool.

On the subject of reuse, some stuff: minimock is now a real package.  It has some features that opencore.testing.minimock does not have, like giving functions or iterators for returning.  There's an example in WSGIProxy tests that use it.

Probably a nicer way to do it would be with wsgi_intercept and a WebOb response object, maybe using some middleware to print out information about the request (since the response is constructed in the test, it's not really important to display it in a doctest).  wsgifilter.proxyapp.DebugHeaders  might be an example of the kind of middleware you could use.  Maybe the integration code could actually go in wsgi_intercept somewhere.

Another thing I realize I should do is bookmark for planetdev any important releases I see.  Or non-opencore discussions that could be interesting.  Or whatever I think other people should look at.

When we first talked (in NYC) about keeping track of what we're doing, what first popped to mind was Twitter.  I don't use Twitter, so this is merely speculation, but it seems like a similar concept -- passive messages about what you're up to, broadcast to people who may be interested in that.  But aren't necessarily.  I believe there's enough Twitter client options that people would be fairly well satisfied whatever their program-using aesthetic is.  You could do the same thing with "/me is working on X" in IRC, but there's too much chat to notice those well. 

And did you know there is a #topp channel for private TOPP discussion?  We should use that more for internal stuff.  But lots of people aren't in that channel.