Hi everyone, we're back this week with another Juju Ecosystem status. Rendered version here: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/t/ohio-and-back-again-aka-juju-charm-ecosystem-status-for-18-september/1042
## 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://www.youtube.com/embed/qs24MMKCFdw) ## Highlights - Juju talk at the Ohio Linuxfest! - Charm tools 1.0 released ### Azure Support! - Charm Tools, Juju client available for Windows 7 and 8 - Microsoft Windows Azure support (you can now deploy to Azure!) - OSX is in homebrew (but you knew that already) The initial blogs are at: - [Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets the Juju magic](http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/press-releases/ubuntu-on-windows-azure-gets-the-juju-magic/) - [Windows Azure now fully supported by Juju](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/09/17/windows-azure-now-fully-supported-by-juju.aspx) - [You got it – Juju for Ubuntu on Azure](http://msopentech.com/blog/2013/09/17/got-juju-ubuntu-azure/) - Microsoft will also be posting at the following this Thursday: http://blogs.technet.com/b/stbnewsbytes/ ## Docs - Docs up to date to reflect charm-tools, Azure configuration, and windows installation. - Two branches out that provide more info on the GUI and Charm Author - New "How To" based on Juju GUI - Charm Author section being worked on - UX testing on Charm User section - Integrate charm-tools into "writing a charm" section ## Tools/Helpers ### Tools - 1.0 release (rewrite to Python) - this lets us be more crossplatform and make the code testable - Packaging is being sorted now, will be available on all three platforms by the end of the week. - 1.1 release later this month. - Hopefully more reliable release schedule moving forward. - Template for `charm create`'s boilerplat hooks are much better. - Marco to add more language-specific best practice to make the boilerplate more useful. - Need to figure out how to get 1.0 into Ubuntu properly - Perhaps work with Rodrigo on Brew, but it will be in pip at a minimum ### Helpers - No changes ... - Feature branches out there, no pending merges yet. ## Amulet - Now that charm tools is 1.0 Marco can finish the Amulet release. - Release 1.0 next week. - "How to write tests for your charm" resources to be written. - 2 Weeks until a charm school specifically just for this. ## Charm Updates - [Recent Changes](http://manage.jujucharms.com/recently-changed) - New icons! Thanks webteam! Varnish, Squid, couch, node, redis... - Shiny [Docker charm](http://manage.jujucharms.com/~mattyw/precise/docker) - not in the store. - ~50 changes in the charm store this week. ## Events - OhioLinuxFest Juju talk! 14 September - DONE! - Marco @ Gluster FS Community Days, part of Linux Conf in New Orleans (Sept 19) - In Progress! - Updated events page (https://juju.ubuntu.com/events/) - Charm School this Friday with Jorge and Mims! - OpenStack conference sneaking up! - SCaLE CFP is open! ## Charm Championship!!! \o/ - 6 categories: Media, telco, continuous deployment, high availability, monitoring, and Data Science! - $60k more in prizes for new categories - Deadline extended to October 22 to accomodate new categories - [http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship](http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship) ## Other Topics ## GOALS - [pavel] email list on continuous deployment story using Rails charm: INPROGRESS - [evilnick] Charm Author docs structure: INPROGRESS - [pavel] Work on amulet integration testing: TODO - [marco] Release/Mail list on Amulet instructions, and general information: INPROGRESS - [jorge] To identify draft pages in docs: DONE - Jorge did confirm with core team that the remaining drafts are not applicable from thumper (Tim P.) - [jorge] Openstack bundle deployment thing from jamespage: INPROGRESS - Talked to Adam_g, I am going to test this this week. - [arosales] Update Gluster and Ohio events on juju.u.c/events: DONE - [utlemming] Schedule in rails doc testing: TODO - [m_3] mapR charm review: INPROGRESS - [marco] Releasing charm-tools 1.0 to stable PPA: TODO - [marco] Get 1.0 charm-tools into saucy/precise: TODO -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship - Share your infrastructure, win a prize! -- Juju-dev mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev
