~charmers Application - David Britton

[James Page]

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Absolute no-brainer from my perspective: +1

On 09/08/14 03:31, David Britton wrote:
> 
> Hi Charmers --
> 
> Here you will find my application for inclusion into the charmers
> group.
> 
> I have been using and developing charms for juju since the pyjuju
> days, while it was being renamed to juju from ensemble.  I have
> authored a number of charms (Some public, some just for personal
> use), and made significant contributions to many more.
> 
> At my day job, I work for Canonical on the Landscape team.  This
> has afforded me the opportunity to work on those charms we use most
> to faciliate our products (apache2, postgresql, haproxy).  I have
> made a number of visible contributions to these from small bug
> fixes to large features.
> 
> Our own charms (landscape-server, landscape-client) are maintained
> under the "~landcape-charmers" team, of which I'm a member.  We
> even have a separate project (landscape-charm) in launchpad for
> tighter control of our development process on our landscape-server
> charm -- these charms are both fully open source (GPLv2).
> 
> We have a fairly extensive internal testing infrastructure for our 
> landscape charms where we spin them up in different combinations
> daily (trusty, precise, multiple versions of Landscape, etc).  We
> do this all with "juju test" at an integration level.  We also have
> a full and comprehensive unit test suites for each of our charms.
> 
> Recently, I desinged, implemented and now maintain (with much help
> from my fellow team members) the storage charm, and the
> block-storage-broker charm.  These charms allow other services to
> request, assiociate and mount cloud storage in a juju-friendly way.
> I'm hoping to see wider adoption of these.
> 
> I have contributed to the openstack charm collection in a number
> of ways, testing, debugging, contributing patches, etc.
> 
> Past these charm specific contributions, I also test, file bugs
> and contribute patches back to other juju products (juju-deployer, 
> charm-tools, charm-helpers, juju-core, juju-gui, ...) on a regular 
> basis.
> 
> Lastly, I am a heavy user of Juju, maintaining many of our teams 
> internal services with it -- so I undersatnd the need to have
> charm quality and robustness.  I also am very aware of making sure
> full solutions work, not *just* individual charms.
> 
> Here are some of the charms where I've made significant
> contributions (authorship-level):
> 
> https://jujucharms.com/precise/landscape-server 
> https://jujucharms.com/precise/landscape-client 
> https://jujucharms.com/precise/storage 
> https://jujucharms.com/precise/block-storage-broker
> 
> Charms I've conrtibuted major changes to:
> 
> https://jujucharms.com/precise/haproxy 
> https://jujucharms.com/precise/apache2
> 
> A couple larger MPs that I have authored:
> 
> https://code.launchpad.net/~davidpbritton/charms/precise/haproxy/fix-service-entries/+merge/202387
>
> 
https://code.launchpad.net/~davidpbritton/charms/precise/apache2/vhost-config-relation/+merge/220295
> https://code.launchpad.net/~davidpbritton/charms/trusty/apache2/avoid-regen-cert/+merge/223990
>
> 
> 
> Feel free to ask me any questions, and thanks for your
> consideration.
> 
> :-)
> 


- -- 
James Page
Ubuntu and Debian Developer
james.page at ubuntu.com
jamespage at debian.org
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