~charmers Application - David Britton

[David Britton]

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.

:-)

-- 
David Britton <david.britton at canonical.com>