Juju Charm Eco status for 19 June

[Jorge O. Castro]

I know right, you've been aching all morning for the notes, and here
they are, complete with public shaming. Rendered version at:
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/06/19/juju-ecosystem-report-for-19-june/

- [Video recording](http://youtu.be/RzEK10bC58w)
- [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.

Ben's charm-tools feedback. Just some ideas:

- It would be nice for `charm create` to work more like `dh_make`
- It should ask for the license to use, and populate the copyright file
- It would be nice for it read the DEBFULLNAME and DEBEMAIL and
s/DEB/CHARM/ environment settings or even .bzr information to
determine authorship
- Category should be asked during the charm create
- It should initialize the branch and accept `--git` or `--subversion`
- It should ask for standard requires, i.e. allow `--requires-db
mysql` or `--requires-http varnish` or prompt
- It should ask for what it provides, i.e. `--provides http`
- It should offer the option of a `--peer` for peer relationships
- For the relationship hook, it would be great to have commented
examples based on the `--requires-X`

## Charm Helpers

- MPs coming in, progress looks great.
- Wedgewood handling incoming work, activity happening, Marco will
roll up a summary of work for next week.
- Thanks Matthew for driving this!

## Testing

### Minor work:

  - charmtester updates to make it more flexible. This is the one that
reports to jenkins on qa.ubuntu.com
  - juju test plugin, new features requested by the gui team
    - Can now run in an existing bootstrapped environment
    - You can now specify a config file in the test directory with
options for the tests you want to run. There's an example yaml
template if you run `juju-test -h` if you wanna check it out, will be
published EOD 2013-06-19

### Major work:

- First release of the testing harness (lp:amulet) ready (ppa being
prepped for folks to use). \o/
  - Wait command, just like `jitsu watch`
  - Deployer command, describe an environment setting by running a
bunch of manual commands, and then uses Kapil, Adam, Matthew, & Co
lp:juju-deployer tool to stand up an environment in a test. "Whoa".
    - We're using it to test openstack deployments and it's designed
to set up complex environments that are repeatable.

## Docs

- Translating old charm author docs to the new format.
  - DONE AS OF MONDAY. \o/ \o/ \o/
  - Just need to finish up the testing, and validation (just a port
over of old docs to the new format, content still needs to be
confirmed).
  - idea - have the new docs deployed as a sub off the apache2 charm.
Have the charm do a cron to update from the bzr branch every 12 hours
(need feedback).
  - Redirects are ready, for when docs go live
  - New doc branch @ lp:~charmers/juju-core/docs
  - any docs problems - [file a bug](https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/docs)!

## Charm Updates from the Store

- [http://jujucharms.com/recently-changed](http://jujucharms.com/recently-changed)
- Jorge talking to MariaDB see if someone is interested in adding
Maria Support to the MySQL charm, any help here appreciated, if you're
using MariaDB and Ubuntu we could use a hand here!

## Misc

- Merge proposal workflow.

## Events

- OSCON - In progress, no issues.

## FRAMEWORK UPDATES

- Rails - almost ready to begin
- node.js - in progress.
- Django and friends - in progress, no thanks to our messed up merge
proposals. :)

## Blockers

- Backports of juju-core to 12.04!!
  - Dependencies on go compiler, core team aware of it, trying to resolve.
  - charm tools and helpers backports blocking on this too.

## Goals from last week

- Mims: 0mq and storm
- mims preping for Stanford talk
-  Do your docs videos!

## Goals for this week

- Mims to sync with Dave on juju-core pre-install hooks.
- Mims: 0mq and storm
- Mims preping for Stanford talk
- Everyone: When you touch a charm, rate it, categorize it, see if you
can give it an icon.
-  Do your docs videos!
- People who did not do docs/videos this week and need to be embarrassed
  - Jorge Castro
  - Antonio Rosales
  - Mark Mims
  - Marco Ceppi
- arosales: get docs to a charm'ed up deployed stage
- utlemming: on vacation
- jorge: video and doc page
- marco: vacation
- mims: Storm and 0mq, talk prep
- nick: 4 videos

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