Juju Ecosystem Report for 17 July

[Jorge O. Castro]

Rendered version at:
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/07/17/juju-ecosystem-report-for-17-july/

## 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/)
- [On-Air Video](http://youtu.be/kK6o510N0-M)


## Highlights

- Local Provier landed in juju-core trunk \o/
  - All hail Thumper, devops bunny.
- OSX client available, [instructions
here](https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/getting-started.html#install)
- [Icon instructions](https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/authors-charm-icon.html)


## Tools/Helpers/Testing

- Changes in -tools will land next week.
- More fixes/features to -helpers from Matt, James, Adam, and Liam. Thanks guys!
- Programmable API (shell interface) work for -helpers will begin next week.
- lp:amulet released last week, release today with deployer
integration, "1.0" by the end of the week.
  - Documentation and blog post/video and examples on how to use
amulet to help you write functional tests for your charms.

## Docs

- [juju.ubuntu.com/docs](http://juju.ubuntu.com/docs)
- Rewrite of the author docs in progress, will go live at the latest
by Monday. (Main priority)
- Added instructions for OSX client (check out the slick CSS thing)
- Marco added revisions to the pages so we can tell when the docs are built.
- Discussion on how to syndicate content to developer.ubuntu.com
- Syncing with Cheney on adding local provider docs.

 ## Charm updates

- [http://jujucharms.com/recently-changed](http://jujucharms.com/recently-changed)
- Rack Charm (Pavel from Altoros)
  - Started last week.
  - Working on "Heroku-like" deployment workflow.
  - Postgres relation works, adding MySQL and MongoDB next.
  - To add: Logstash and Nagios.
  - Running source code updates should work now.
- OpenAS is now in the store, thanks to John Patterson

## Audits

- Testing integration lands August 1st, spinning this up.
- [http://jujucharms.com/tools/proof-errors](http://jujucharms.com/tools/proof-errors)

## Events

 - OSCON next.
 - AWS
  - Need to submit Juju talks

## Charm Championship!!! \o/

 - [github.com/juju](http://github.com/juju)
 - Submit your Juju deployment and enter to wik 10k!

## Video:

Use this for recording your videos:

    recordmydesktop --freq=22050 --buffer-size 96000 --width 1024
--height 768 --fps 24 -x 6 -y 96 --delay 3 -o
"juju-screencast-scale.ogv"

Change the -x and -y to match position of your vm display

## GOALS

 - [jorge] Get queue for charm proof errors for Audits: Done
   - We have this, we just need sinzui's team to drop oneiric and then
add the rest to the queue:
[http://jujucharms.com/tools/proof-errors](http://jujucharms.com/tools/proof-errors)
 - [m_3] sync with jorge and marco on test driven charming for OSCON: INPROGRESS
   - marco to finalize OSCON details with m_3
 - [arosales] scaling video: INPROGRESS
 - [marco] upgrades video: INPROGRESS
 - [arosales] to walk through docs: DONE
 - [arosales] Add file server category: DONE
 - [marco, nick]: stackTack integration: DEFERRED
 - [all] Charm Championship get folks involved ! github.com/juju: INPROGRESS
 - [pavel] 1st iteration of Rails charm: INPROGRESS
 - [pavel] email list on continuous deployment story using Rails
charm: INPROGRESS
 - [jorge] OSCON and Juju talk delivery:
 - [evilnick] Charm Author docs structure
 - [marco] Changes to charm-tools update
 - [marco] amulet completed deployer integration


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Jorge Castro
Canonical Ltd.
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