Juju Eco status for 13 September

[Jorge O. Castro]

Hi everyone, we're back this week with another Juju Ecosystem status.
Rendered version here:
http://ubuntu-discourse.org/t/ohio-and-back-again-aka-juju-charm-ecosystem-status-for-18-september/1042


## General Info:
- [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa)
- [Status Board](https://trello.com/board/charmers-board/4ec1696da3f94bd2ea5b2b01)
- [Juju.u.c Meeting
Site](https://juju.ubuntu.com/community/weekly-charm-meeting/)
- [Video of Meeting](http://www.youtube.com/embed/qs24MMKCFdw)

## Highlights
- Juju talk at the Ohio Linuxfest!
- Charm tools 1.0 released

### Azure Support!
- Charm Tools, Juju client available for Windows 7 and 8
- Microsoft Windows Azure support (you can now deploy to Azure!)
  - OSX is in homebrew (but you knew that already)

The initial blogs are at:

- [Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets the Juju
magic](http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/press-releases/ubuntu-on-windows-azure-gets-the-juju-magic/)
- [Windows Azure now fully supported by
Juju](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/09/17/windows-azure-now-fully-supported-by-juju.aspx)
- [You got it – Juju for Ubuntu on
Azure](http://msopentech.com/blog/2013/09/17/got-juju-ubuntu-azure/)
- Microsoft will also be posting at the following this Thursday:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/stbnewsbytes/

## Docs
- Docs up to date to reflect charm-tools, Azure configuration, and
windows installation.
- Two branches out that provide more info on the GUI and Charm Author
  - New "How To" based on Juju GUI
  - Charm Author section being worked on
- UX testing on Charm User section
- Integrate charm-tools into "writing a charm" section

## Tools/Helpers

### Tools
- 1.0 release (rewrite to Python) - this lets us be more crossplatform
and make the code testable
  - Packaging is being sorted now, will be available on all three
platforms by the end of the week.
  - 1.1 release later this month.
  - Hopefully more reliable release schedule moving forward.
- Template for `charm create`'s boilerplat hooks are much better.
- Marco to add more language-specific best practice to make the
boilerplate more useful.
- Need to figure out how to get 1.0  into Ubuntu properly
- Perhaps work with Rodrigo on Brew, but it will be in pip at a minimum

### Helpers
- No changes ...
- Feature branches out there, no pending merges yet.

## Amulet
- Now that charm tools is 1.0 Marco can finish the Amulet release.
- Release 1.0 next week.
- "How to write tests for your charm" resources to be written.
- 2 Weeks until a charm school specifically just for this.

## Charm Updates
- [Recent Changes](http://manage.jujucharms.com/recently-changed)
- New icons! Thanks webteam! Varnish, Squid, couch, node, redis...
- Shiny [Docker
charm](http://manage.jujucharms.com/~mattyw/precise/docker) - not in
the store.
- ~50 changes in the charm store this week.

## Events
- OhioLinuxFest Juju talk! 14 September - DONE!
- Marco @ Gluster FS Community Days, part of Linux Conf in New Orleans
(Sept 19) - In Progress!
- Updated events page (https://juju.ubuntu.com/events/)
- Charm School this Friday with Jorge and Mims!
- OpenStack conference sneaking up!
- SCaLE CFP is open!

## Charm Championship!!! \o/
- 6 categories: Media, telco, continuous deployment, high
availability, monitoring, and Data Science!
- $60k more in prizes for new categories
- Deadline extended to October 22 to accomodate new categories
- [http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship](http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship)

## Other Topics
## GOALS
- [pavel] email list on continuous deployment story using Rails charm:
INPROGRESS
- [evilnick] Charm Author docs structure: INPROGRESS
- [pavel] Work on amulet integration testing: TODO
- [marco] Release/Mail list on Amulet instructions, and general
information: INPROGRESS
- [jorge] To identify draft pages in docs: DONE
  - Jorge did confirm with core team that the remaining drafts are not
applicable from thumper (Tim P.)
- [jorge] Openstack bundle deployment thing from jamespage: INPROGRESS
  - Talked to Adam_g, I am going to test this this week.
- [arosales] Update Gluster and Ohio events on juju.u.c/events: DONE
- [utlemming] Schedule in rails doc testing: TODO
- [m_3] mapR charm review: INPROGRESS
- [marco] Releasing charm-tools 1.0 to stable PPA: TODO
- [marco] Get 1.0 charm-tools into saucy/precise: TODO

-- 
Jorge Castro
Canonical Ltd.
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