Charm meeting notes: 12 June

[Jorge O. Castro]

As always, rendered version is here:
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/06/12/what-is-going-on-with-juju-june-12-edition/


- [Video recording](http://youtu.be/0qaxWHnqxNQ)
- [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/)

## Charm Tools

- Similar to last week, no real big changes, Marco will hit these
after he's done with testing.
- We need to update the review queue charm schools, the website queue
fixed the "time to first response", but the CLI tool is behind. Mims
to bust it out.

## Charm Helpers

- adam_g landing some fixes to charm helpers.
  - openstack utility fixes
  - improve test coverage
  - jamespage added some intelligent restarting bits and some reorg
too, thanks -server team!
- Wedgewood stops by to provide an update
  - Most items in contrib have been moved to the library, it's shaping up!
  - Nick Moffit is working on the CLI to helpers, making it available
to all languages
- If you find yourself doing things over and over again, talk to them
and file feature bugs!

## Testing

- plugins good to go - more changes to land due to feedback from the GUI team.
  - GUI team dogfooding this harness and plugin, thanks guys!
- harness
  - End of month target for all of this to land. June 28th!
  - Mims to blog about the framework/harness, part 1 almost done.

## Docs

- now live at [https://launchpad.net/juju-core/docs](https://launchpad.net/juju-core/docs)
  - Yes, we're moving docs back into core so we can version along with
core. I know right.
- Anyone can contribute branches, even Jorge did, and he's not smart,
you are out of excuses!
- Jade templates are kind of tempermental formatting wise, Nick
investigating dropping them and doing pure HTML to lower the barrier
to entry.
   - investigate how we proceede with Jade post the navigation
settling being defined.
- Nick thinks we can go live now
   - What do we need to go live?
- videos ongoing, assigned out upgradees and destroying services
- todos:
   - link mapping (marco)
    - versioning (nick)
    - where to host old and new docs (arosales to follow up RT with IS).
    - decide how to handle getting started docs on juju.ubuntu.com (jorge)
- Next action: evilnick to bring old user author docs by June 17
  - arosales will open RT
- Looking to have docs complete by June 28.

## Charm Framework updates

- Rails/Rack unblocked via Antonio, we should have work landing soon!
- no updates on node.js from jeff/mims, but Joynet is interested in
checking them out and contributing.
  - Part 2 of the charm school this Friday will be node again.
- Mims would like to see preinstallation of packages, is now
considering this a blocker for platforms charms.
  - Framework communities will want these.
  - Jorge/Antonio to bring this up with core team. Here's [the
bug](https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/1190293).
  - need a tag in juju-core bugs to show user-feedback/contribution growth
  - New charm!  Liferay! Needs a second round of review.

## Events

- OSCON - People need to rate/categorize charms, ~charmers!!
  - need charms to have ratings, icons, and categories
- Strata still pending.
- Mims still in progress for his epic data plumbing talk at Stanford.

## Blockers on Trello

 - Backports of goju to 12.04
   - Still in progress

## Goals for upcoming week

- Mims: 0mq and storm
- mims preping for Stanford talk
- evilnick working on moving charm author docs content over
- arosales finding a hosting place
- arosales move docs to new branch
- marco working on next iteration of testing harness
- jorge,arosales to follow on on pre-install hooks with juju-core
- Everyone: Work on docs!!
- Everyone: When you touch a charm, rate it, categorize it, see if you
can give it an icon.
-  Do your docs videos!

## Misc

- [Charm icon guidelines](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hBTH_7RLUYMV-VhZOGxb-bFHICXyVRU4t8L79Dlea80/pub)

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Jorge Castro
Canonical Ltd.
http://juju.ubuntu.com