Pablo Hoffman

Here's an article about using tsocks with scrapy: http://blog.scrapinghub.com/2010/11/12/scrapy-tsocks/ Not sure SOCKS5 is something we'd want to support directly on Scrapy, since HTTP proxies are often enough. Could you elaborate...

thanks for sharing @dchrostowski , that's worth a blog post! :)

Are there any big users/projects using the asyncio reactor @kmike?

Thanks. As far as I'm concerned, it makes sense, and changing the default project template is a good way to start.

Signals got [their own API](http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/api.html#topics-api-signals) on 0.15 (no longer need to import pydispatcher) but we can still rewrite the backend (which is what this issue is for) - it will...

I'm pasting a comment I wrongly made in another issue: @artem-dev you are instantiating a `SignalManager` in your own spider, that's not how it's supposed to work. You should be...

That's right @artem-dev. However, doing it in parse would cause it to be called many times, so start_requests would be more appropriate.

@llonchj any plan to resume the API improvements soon?

Is this issue still valid?

Maybe just add a unittest if doctests don't handle non-ascii text in Python 2.x?