Charm Ecosystem Status for 22 May

[Jorge O. Castro]

Here's the status in rendered form if you don't like the raw markdown:
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/05/22/juju-ecosystem-status-for-22-may/


Here's all the goodies for the week:

- [Video recording](http://youtu.be/5iNX5Qy6Lzk)
- [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/)

# Updates this past week:

## vUDS

 - Charm Auditing! Marco will be providing list of things and charms
not up to snuff, post to list in order to get fixes (or eventually
remove from store)

Blueprints Discussed:

- [http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/track/servercloud/](http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/track/servercloud/)

Please check out the blueprints, there's a ton of detail there!

## Charm Tools

- Fixed dependency to recommend juju-core or juju, fixes Jono's bug.
- charm-helpers being split into it's own project:
[https://launchpad.net/charm-helpers](https://launchpad.net/charm-helpers)
  - Rewriting a bunch of them into python instead of a mishmash of
bash and python, gives us cross-OS compatability, better templating,
easier testing.
  - Rolling out a single charm-helpers package

## Docs

- Pre-beta live site (Nick hates it when we link it. :))
  - [http://www.evilnick.org/juju/getting-started.html](http://www.evilnick.org/juju/getting-started.html)
  - Current docs not generating, filed RT, IS to complete by the end
of this week.
  - Code: lp:~evilnick/juju/go-juju-docs
  -[arosales] Todo to make a better docs staging site

## Charm Testing

- Rewriting the `jitsu test` code so it works as a juju plugin to
enable easier testing.
- lp:juju-plugins

##  Charm Framework Updates

- node.js - Jeff Pihach linked up with Mims, experienced node.js dev.
Good things on the roadmap here. We'll get a better status when Mims
returns from Gluecon
- rails/rack - Follow up with Pavel?
- Django, someone mentioned in UDS that it's nearly ready to be
submitted to the store.

## CFPs & Upcoming Events

- Mark Mims is at Gluecon! Go get em!
- Submitted to Strata in NYC. (mims)
- Strata in London submission in progress (jamespage)
- TexasLinuxFest, arosales to present.

## Charm Schools

- Next Friday is Part 2 of "How to write a charm"
- We'd like to have a roadmap for charm schools
- Over the next day or so Jorge to publish a schedule for charm
schools, will be on the Events.
- We'd like to be responsive to user needs.
   - Keep biweekly cadence, be flexible enough to do on-the-spot charm schools.
- Jorge to add more detail to charm schools on the web page, show what
topics were covered in more detail.
- capture the IRC Logs (duh!).

- Topics people want: Puppet/Juju, Charming from Scratch, Improving an
existing charm (including the workflow to submit it back)

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