<p dir="ltr">Just wanted to state that, while I obviously have no vote in the matter (since I am not part of the charmers team), it would really be in the best interest to accept Charles on the team.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Charles is a great guy that has extremely helpful and patient with me while I ensure that my Juju Charm fits to the policy of the Charm Store and during the time when he blocked the charm from being merged upstream, he explained very clearly both why it was blocked (the policy itself) as well as why the policy exists, providing clear examples / scenarios that helped me understand why I needed to fix my Charm and put it on par in terms of quality with all the upstream Charms. He not only replied to me in IRC, recommended ways to improve my Charm, but he also added the same recommendations on the Launchpad bug (for merge) so I could easily reference in the future (which really felt like he was going even more of out the way to help me).</p>
<p dir="ltr">So while I don't have a vote in the matter, I urge the charmers team to accept Charles Butler's application. He has shown the competency, patience, and kindness that are needed both in the Charmers team as well as the Ubuntu community as a whole.</p>
<p dir="ltr">- Joshua Strobl</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 15, 2014 7:30 AM, "Charles Butler" <<a href="mailto:chuck@dasroot.net">chuck@dasroot.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Greetings Charmers,<div><br></div><div>I've been talking myself up in preparation for this application process. I've been poking around the juju charm queue for the last month and a half, writing charm tests for the audit and learning everything I can about the current status of the juju ecosystem.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I feel that I am ready to take my first steps into the arena of being a Juju Charmer after becoming battle hardened by taking part in the great Charm Audit of 2014, and my first full week as the on-duty reviewer of the Charm Review Queue.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I list my credentials for your evaluation:</div><div><br></div><div>I understand the charm testing procedure, and champion its use to the community at large:</div><div><a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~lazypower/charms/precise/jenkins/amulet-tests" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none;padding:0px 0px 6px 18px;line-height:18px;font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-image:url(https://code.launchpad.net/+icing/rev16963/inline-sprites-1.png);background-repeat:no-repeat" target="_blank">lp:~lazypower/charms/precise/jenkins/amulet-tests</a><br>
</div><div><a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~lazypower/charms/precise/owncloud/tests" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none;padding:0px 0px 6px 18px;line-height:18px;font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-image:url(https://code.launchpad.net/+icing/rev16963/inline-sprites-1.png);background-repeat:no-repeat" target="_blank">lp:~lazypower/charms/precise/owncloud/tests</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>UDS 2014 - How to get started writing Amulet Tests</div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTeRjGv4E4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTeRjGv4E4</a><br></div><div><br>
</div><div>I understand that bugs are part of any software development process, and try to illustrate good practice on opening bugs against the charms that warrant them: (and submit patches)</div>
<div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><span>#1279924</span> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/cassandra/+bug/1279924" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Needs Maintainer</a></div>
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<span>#1274639</span> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/owncloud/+bug/1274639" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">NFS relationship logic is broken</a></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px">
<span><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span>#1270968</span> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/mediawiki/+bug/1270968" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Race condition in config-changed hook</a> </div>
<div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span><span>#1287393</span> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/nrpe/+bug/1287393" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">NRPE Fails to find an IP on AWS</a><br>
</span></div><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span>#1287394</span> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/nagios/+bug/1287394" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">NRPE units not displaying in nagios web interface</a><br>
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<div>I actively contribute to enhancing the juju documentation for all users</div><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px">
<a href="https://github.com/juju/docs/pull/27" target="_blank">https://github.com/juju/docs/pull/27</a><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span><font color="#666666" face="Ubuntu, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><a href="https://github.com/juju/docs/pull/19" target="_blank">https://github.com/juju/docs/pull/19</a></span><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><div>I've written charms and actively submit patches to charms for bugs/feature requests and supporting projects</div><div><br></div><div><b>juju-ansible-quickstart-scaffolding</b></div>
<div><a href="https://github.com/absoludity/charm-bootstrap-ansible/pull/1" target="_blank">https://github.com/absoludity/charm-bootstrap-ansible/pull/1</a><br></div><div><b>Juju-Chef-quickstart-scaffolding</b></div><div>
<a href="https://github.com/Altoros/juju-charm-chef/pull/1" target="_blank">https://github.com/Altoros/juju-charm-chef/pull/1</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><b>My Authored charms:</b></div><div><a href="https://github.com/chuckbutler/errbit-charm-chef" target="_blank">https://github.com/chuckbutler/errbit-charm-chef</a><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/chuckbutler/starbound-charm" target="_blank">https://github.com/chuckbutler/starbound-charm</a><br>
</div><div><a href="https://github.com/chuckbutler/datastax-opscenter-charm" target="_blank">https://github.com/chuckbutler/datastax-opscenter-charm</a><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/chuckbutler/papertrail-charm" target="_blank">https://github.com/chuckbutler/papertrail-charm</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><b>Presentations over Juju at-large</b></div><div><a href="https://github.com/juju/presentations/pull/2" target="_blank">https://github.com/juju/presentations/pull/2</a><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>I have landed successful charm submissions with low signal to noise ratio during the final review process:</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">#1125869</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"> </span><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+bug/1125869" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none;font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">New charm: postfix</a><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">#1284738</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"> </span><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+bug/1284738" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none;font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">New Apache Syncope Juju Charm</a><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">#1273790</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"> </span><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+bug/1273790" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none;font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">Charm Needed: wildfly</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I have blocked charms that violate the charm store policy, and initiated a re-review process with the charm author:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">#1278369</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"> </span><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+bug/1278369" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none;font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">Charm Needed: metis</a><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">#1199052</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"> </span><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+bug/1199052" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none;font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">New charm: mailman</a></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">#1260100</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"> </span><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+bug/1260100" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none;font-family:Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">Create a simple subordinate swap charm</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I am responsive in IRC with the community about questions relating to juju and charms:</div><div><br></div><div>-- snippets of acknowledgements left in IRC from the last 4 days --</div><div><br>
</div><div><JoshStrobl> lazyPower: Thanks for your kind words and the tip on using git (makes sense since the code is on GitHub anyways) =)<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><jose> lazyPower: hey, if you're around and have a minute, looks like I fixed the mailman charm</div>
<div><lazyPower> jose: awesome :) did you move the status of your ticket to fix committed?</div></div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span><font color="#666666" face="Ubuntu, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><br>
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<nessita> lazyPower, marcoceppi: thanks for your help, and sorry for the unnecesasry ping</div><div style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><marcoceppi> nessita: psh, np! anytime</div>
<div style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><zchander> lazyPower: Thanks for your help, yesterday. Sorry I had to go so unexpectedly....</span><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px">With this resume, I ask that you review my work and judge me based on the merit of my contributions. I present myself as I am, imperfect, flawed, but dedicated to the cause of creating a unique experience for every single member of the juju community - building something great, and holding all charms to the bylaws of charm store submission guidelines. To carry the torch of charm authoring, testing, auditing, and maintainership.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px">Your humble jr charmer</span></div>
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