~charmers Application - David Britton

[Juan Negron]

No Brainer from me as well .. . +1


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Charles Butler <
charles.butler at canonical.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> Seeing this application makes me happy. I give you a resounding thumbs up
> with the following reasons;
>
> David has shown a dedication to the charm ecosystem with several patches,
> and discussions about implementations of charms, and charming theory / best
> practices, and contributions to charm-helpers.
>
> I also worked with dpb hand in hand to land the Landscape stack of charms
> in the charm store. His team had an excellent suite of tests to aid in the
> delivery of the review of the landscape stack, and any questions that I
> had, he was quick to respond and even put in some OT to answer my questions
> after hours.
>
> +1 from this ~charmer.
>
> All the best,
>
> Charles
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:31 PM, David Britton <
> david.britton at canonical.com> 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.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> --
>> David Britton <david.britton at canonical.com>
>>
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Thanks,

Juan L. Negron <juan.negron at canonical.com>
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