Ecosystem Status for 14 August

[Jorge O. Castro]

Hear ye hear ye! Here's the charm eco status for the week.

Rendered version at:
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/08/14/juju-ecosystem-status-for-14-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/lNFnWH2-JyA)

## Highlights

- Halfway through Charm Charmpionship
- We now have debug-hooks!
- Improvements to the local provider
- 1.12 stable in ppa:juju/stable ppa
- 1.13.1 development release in ppa:/juju/devel

## Tools/Helpers/Testing

### Amulet

- In progress, and when Marco returns there will be more info and
details on how to run and purpose of project.

### Tools

- No updates

### Helpers

- No updates

## Docs

- Nick is off today
- Feedback from -core to improve docs
  - Improve "the first 30 minute" experience
  - Includes improvements to front page
  - Draft pages from old-docs need review to see if they are
appropriate to new docs.
- Figure out the header situation. Specifically, duplicaton of the
navigatoin in each page.
- Update/Confirm instructions
- General meeting on the docs experience including UX tsting

## Charm updates

- [Recently Changed](http://manage.jujucharms.com/recently-changed)
- New Rack Charm, more details on this charming coming (list and blog post).
- Review queue down to 5 items -- thanks m_3 and marcoceppi
- New MapR charm, in review atm.
- New charm: charybdis IRC server
- bittornado had some fixes
- minor Wordpress updates
- sidnei experimenting with using "evahi" subordiante charm
- Good fixes

## Events

- Planning has begun for the OpenStack Summit Hong Kong
- AWS re:Invent
- Lisa
- CFP due for Ruby conf at the end of August (m_3)
- MongoSV this fall/winter


## Charm Championship!!! \o/

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

## GOALS

- [jorge] Blog about --to: DONE
- [jorge] Ask Forum moderators to put Juju/Cloud section on the front page: DONE
- [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: INPROGRESS
- [nick] Add local provider getting started docs: TODO
- [pavel] Work on amulet integration testing: TODO
- [pavel] Start investigating how to do backup in Rails: TODO
  - in github branch atm.
- [jorge] Confirm HP install instructoins: TODO
- [evilnick] Confirm header situration. Specifically, duplicaton of
the navigatoin in each page: TODO
- [marco] Mail list on Amulet instructions, and general information
- [jorge] To identify draft pages in docs: TODO
- [m_3] Final review for the Rack charm to go into the Store
- [m_3] Confirm ruby conf submission
- [jorge] Update Charm School

-- 
Jorge Castro
Canonical Ltd.
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