Re: [Ecosystem-engineering] The future of Charm Helpers

Hi Marco On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Marco Ceppi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm rebooting this conversation because it never fully came to a > resolution and since this topic was discussed a lot has happened in the > Charm Ecosystem. I still hold firm, and a

Re: [Ecosystem-engineering] The future of Charm Helpers

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Billy Olsen wrote: > Secondly, I'm mildly concerned with the namespace of choice (using the > shared charms. as the parent namespace). There may be a magical python 3ism > that resolves the mixed development + packaged use of common

Re: [Ecosystem-engineering] The future of Charm Helpers

Cory, Yeah, my understanding is that the namespace support in Python 3 is far improved, and there was some support for it in Python 2.7 which still had some unique issues from time to time. I'll play around with it a bit and if I find anything worth mentioning I'll report back. At the very least,

Re: [Ecosystem-engineering] The future of Charm Helpers

I am very much in favor of this move forward. I’ve recently worked on converting the charm-benchmark package to charms.benchmark; I see where having cleaner namespaces make will make every charm author’s life easier. That said, I know that transitioning to this new model is an epic undertaking,

Re: [Ecosystem-engineering] The future of Charm Helpers

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Marco Ceppi marco.ce...@canonical.com wrote: I can see how this helps for discoverability for those already pretty intimate with the code base, but a lot of the key complaints we've gotten around new authors getting started is there is just an overwhelming

Re: [Ecosystem-engineering] The future of Charm Helpers

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:00 AM Matt Bruzek matthew.bru...@canonical.com wrote: Thanks for the write up Marco. I am particularly interested in growing the CLI aspect of charm-helpers to aid authors who still use bash charms. Also cleaning up the docs so they make sense and is easier to