State of the Puppet Community - PuppetConf 2012

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James Turnbull, Dawn Foster, Andy Parker | Puppet Labs james@puppetlabs.comdawn@puppetlabs.comandy@puppetlabs.com

State of the Community

# puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

• Wrote some stuff

• VP Technical Ops at Puppet Labs

• Funny accent

• Film fan

Favorite film?

Awwww!

Agenda

• Introductions

• The state of the community

• Initiatives

• Ask not what your community can do for you

• Questions

New faces

Introductions

Dawn Foster• 2nd day at Puppet Labs as Community Manager

• Previous Open Source Community Manager: Tizen, MeeGo, Openfire, others

• Early Career: Sys Admin, Programmer, Market Researcher, Program Manager

• Education: BS in Computer Science, MBA

• Getting Started (1st month): Lurking, learning and working on published community metrics

• Info: dawn@puppetlabs.com, @geekygirldawn, DawnFoster (IRC), fastwonderblog.com

Andy Parker• Puppet Team Lead

• Software Developer

• One time (long ago) cfengine user

• Cyclist

• New to open source development

• Come talk to me!

• Info: andy@puppetlabs.com, zaphod42 (IRC)

Eric Sorenson

• Puppet Platform Product Owner

• SysAdmin at a large Cupertino fruit company

• Mad keen cyclist

• Go talk to him!

• Info: eric.sorenson@puppetlabs.com, eric0 (IRC)

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

Show me the metrics!

The year that was…• Puppet user mailing list membership was

• With about 600 messages a month

• The #puppet IRC channel averaged 400 people

• Puppet on GitHub had 200 forks and 400 watchers

• We had 50 modules on the Forge

The year that is…

• Puppet users mailing list membership is almost 5000

• With 1200 messages a month

• The #puppet IRC channel averages 800 people

• Puppet on GitHub has 350 forks and 950 watchers

• We have over 500 modules on the Forge

Inconceivable!

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

But what about the Rodents of Unu^H^H

Errr….Development?

How much is going on?

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

11231205

2464 2447

Commits

But who is doing all this?

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

22 2530

ContributorsCommits/Contributor

What does it all add up to?

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

21,635

50,497

76,891

89,304

103,118108,636

137,743141,126

12 42 58 82 77 86 108 116

SLOC# Providers

For the Puppet community

So what’s next?

Initiatives

• Questions and Answers

• More responsive

• More metrics

• More awesome

Q&A site• Not everyone likes mailing lists

• Leverage success of sites like Stackoverflow

More responsive

• We suck sometimes

• We’re getting better

• Really.

More responsive

Call us out if we’re not!

More metrics• It’s cool to understand how many of you

there are

• It’s even cooler to try to understand who you are

• We’d like to actually know what you want!

• We want to be transparent and accountable

More awesome

• Talk to us

• Complain to us

• Give us feedback we can action

• Help us out!

can do for you but what you can do for your community

Ask not what your community

The Puppet Community

We want you!

We need your help!

• Documentation

• Facter

• Code & Tests (and Testing)

• Modules!

Documentation

• Docs site: http://docs.puppetlabs.com

• GitHub: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-docs

• Redmine: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet-docs

• Open a ticket! Or better fix a ticket!

• Send us a pull request

• Profit!

Facter

• Have a platform Facter doesn’t know about?

• Have a resource or infrastructure component you’d like exposed?

• Test coverage == teh awesome

• GitHub: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter

• Redmine: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter

Modules

• Share and publish your modules

• Fork and develop modules

• Module bounties!

• Module A, B, and C

• Forge: http://forge.puppetlabs.com/

Code & Testing

• Triage Puppet bugs and features

• Write code

• Write tests

• Test releases!

I can do that?

Yes you bloody well can

Get some tips

• Getting Started with Contributing to Puppet and Facter

• Hailee, Tesca and Ruth

• Meeting Room 1 at 1.15pm

Questions

Oh and BTW….

• PuppetCamp Nuremberg

• October 19th, 2012

• http://www.netways.de/puppetcamp

Thank you!

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