These 3 patches enable us to have a functional pybitmessage version
0.6.1, released 2 days ago.

For tests you can use either the test channel which can be found on
bitmessage.org (or in the application itself? I don't know, I'm no
newcomer to this application) or the channel I did setup a while ago
(blame my window manager if there's a typo, the copy & paste is
sometimes stuck):
BM-2cTPsDEX29yRnrAmyfwZhC3RySsK4wnQUA
[chan] gnuguixchan