Juju Eco status for 21 August

[Jorge O. Castro]

Another week another status! Rendered version at:
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/08/21/juju-charm-ecosystem-status-for-21-august/

## 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://youtu.be/P45sjkVqc4U)

## Highlights

- [Charm Contest](https://github.com/juju/charm-championship) about
50% through, (ends Oct 1.)
 - Juju in OSX client officially in Homebrew (Thanks Rodrigo)
 - also be able to get development versions landing soon in the brew receipe
- Also an opportunity to leverage Juju in the Netflix Cloud Prize
(https://github.com/Netflix/Cloud-Prize)
- New charm school schedule posted, [charm school this
Friday](http://juju.ubuntu.com/events) -- getting started with the
local provider

## Tools/Helpers/Testing

### Charm Tools:

- charm create gives you a working charm, previous failed charm lint
- gives example of every hooks available,
 - config.yaml example -- types of config options
- one other update <Marco to update here>
- Also working on full Python port

### Charm Helpers

- Merge proposal for a programable API to use helpers with other languages.
 - from wedgwood

### Amulet

- Just about ready for 1.0
  - Release this week!
- [ReadMe](https://github.com/marcoceppi/amulet/blob/master/README.md)
has doc updates

### Jenkins Testing

- Need a review of the current status of charms after Jenkins being down.

## Docs

- Restructuring in progress.
- Incoming contributions.
- Merge landing later on today
  - Improved instructions on how to add pages, and set up local docs.
- image id types to come back to the docs once it is added back to
juju-core (1.13 >)
- Suggestion for charm author docs to be added to developer.ubuntu.com
in addition to juju.ubuntu.com
- New core features that need docs:
  - Local provider
  - Debug Hooks
  - deploy --to
  - --constraints
- Need to evaluate old docs "drafts" and see what needs to come forward.
- Marco explained what cpu-power constraint does, not documented,
Jorge to talk to core about documenting providers.
- jamespage says we should do /docs and "/next/docs", overall
agreement that this is a good idea

## Bundles and Deployer

- [OpenStack bundle](http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openstack-charmers/+junk/openstack-ha/view/head:/python-redux.json)
  - openstack charms @
[https://code.launchpad.net/~openstack-charmers](https://code.launchpad.net/~openstack-charmers)
- Deployer going into saucy soon!
- James had a good [blog
post](http://javacruft.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/juju-put-it-there-please/
for deploy --to)

## Charm Updates

- [http://manage.jujucharms.com/recently-changed](http://manage.jujucharms.com/recently-changed)

## Events

- OhioLinuxFest Juju talk!
- [vUDS](http://uds.ubuntu.com/) - Aug 27-29

## Charm Championship!!! \o/

- [http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship](http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship)


## GOALS

- [marco] upgrades video (I missed *another* week): INPROGRESS
- [pavel] email list on continuous deployment story using Rails charm:
INPROGRESS
  - [arosales, m_3] To get feedback to pavel: INPROGRESS
- [evilnick] Charm Author docs structure: INPROGRESS
- [marco] amulet sentry integration: DONE
- [nick] Add local provider getting started docs: TODO
- [pavel] Work on amulet integration testing: TODO
- [pavel] Start investigating how to do backup in Rails: DEFERRED
  - in github branch atm.
- [jorge] Confirm HP install instructions: DONE, updated AU, filed bug for docs.
- [evilnick] Confirm header situration. Specifically, duplicaton of
the navigatoin in each page: DONE
- [marco] Mail list on Amulet instructions, and general information: TODO
- [jorge] To identify draft pages in docs: INPROGRESS
- [m_3] Final review for the Rack charm to go into the Store: INPROGRESS
- [m_3] Confirm ruby conf submission: INPROGRESS
- [jorge] Update Charm School list on juju.ubuntu.com: DONE
- [marco] Charm Tools port to full python: INPROGRESS
- [jorge] Openstack bundle deployment thing from jamespage.


-- 
Jorge Castro
Canonical Ltd.
http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship - Share your infrastructure,
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