Published a ~2800 word blog post about my experience becoming a first time contributor to open source software:
http://terriyu.info/blog/posts/2013/07/becoming-foss-contributor/
I didn't know that you can set the status of the blueprint. I set the status of the blueprint to "started": https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/api-group-by
We talked about the group by blueprint, lots of stuff that I won't note here, but here are some things she mentioned about Pecan and WSME, libraries that are used in the Ceilometer API
Pecan is a lightweight web framework to serve URLs, etc http://pecanpy.org
I wasn't familiar with WSME but it looks like it aims to make writing REST APIs easier :) https://pypi.python.org/pypi/WSME
jpich also gave me a reference on unit testing that she liked: http://pragprog.com/book/utj/pragmatic-unit-testing-in-java-with-junit