Re: [Puppet Users] First anniversary of the module team
Happy anniversary to you all !! On 25/06/14 18:53, Ashley Penney wrote: The 1st anniversary of the module team! Hello from the module team here at Puppet Labs! I’m starting this email with a lie because I’m not sure exactly when our first anniversary really is, but I started on the 1st of July and the team had only just gotten started, so that’s as good a date as any. For those readers who are unaware, the module team at Puppet Labs exists primarily to implement the supported modules initiative. For anyone that missed the announcement last year, the goal of supported modules is to help you more easily discover amazing modules and offer support for those modules to Puppet Enterprise customers. Over the last year we’ve been laying the foundations to make this sustainable (and making it up as we go along). In order to support modules across the diverse set of platforms PE runs on, we’ve had to experiment with and learn how to test modules in a sustainable, scalable way, and over the last year we’ve been trying to accomplish that. Members of the team Before we talk about what we’ve been doing over the last year, I thought it would be nice to briefly talk about who is in the team, our backgrounds, and where you can get hold of us. I’ll list everyone in the order they joined the team to make life easy for me. Hunter Haugen Hunter was the very first member of the team and many of you know him as “hunner” on IRC. Previously a member of the Professional Services team, Hunter spent his time traveling and visiting customers all over the world. His background, like mine, is mostly UNIX systems administration. He’s responsible for the huge refactoring of the apache module a while back, and is all over the popular puppetlabs modules we hope you’re all using. Ashley Penney This one is me. I’m “ashp” on IRC and hopefully I know many of you. I’ve been a Puppet user since the start of 2008, when I spent most of my time harassing Luke on IRC over “bugs” I found that turned out to be fundamental design decisions. I’ve been in operations for ~12 years, and this is the only job I’ve ever had where nobody will wake me up at 0300 to let me know everything has crashed and the world is on fire. It’s pretty awesome. Chris Hoge Anyone here who has used the openstack modules can thank Chris for putting in a ton of work to make them awesome. Just before I took this job, I tried to use the puppetlabs openstack modules and after a week I threw up my hands and gave up as nothing worked. Now they actually work and are awesome. Progress! Chris primarily focuses on openstack, but he sometimes has to wrestle modules that are dependencies into shape (like mongodb!). You can find him as “hogepodge” on IRC. Travis Fields Travis joined to help the module team build out and build up awesome modules specifically for Windows. The rest of us are Linux users, so we often just threw up our hands and said “I can’t fix that!” when modules had issues on Windows. Since joining the team, he’s taken over the reboot and registry modules, fixed vcsrepo to work on windows, taken on the new acl module, as well as fixed a number of issues throughout our tooling to make sure Windows is a true first class platform for modules instead of something we hide under the bed from. Travis goes by “cyberious” on IRC. Morgan Haskel Morgan previously worked with Onyxpoint (a long time Puppet community member!) on Puppet modules. Battle-scarred from forcing complex modules into behaving properly, she joined Puppet Labs to help us write amazing supported modules. She’s brought some adult supervision to the team and ensures we’re on a regular cadence for module releases. You can ask her questions about Hadoop (she’ll love it, I promise) on IRC as “_morgan”. AJ Johnson The almost-newest member of the team is our boss; he's in charge of ensuring we’re all pointing in the right direction and focused on actually building things the community benefits from. He escaped from IBM to come wrangle the team into a semblance of order and make sure we’re on track to deliver supported modules! Colleen Murphy The actual-newest member of the team comes to us for the summer as an intern from PSU (that’s the portland one, not the Pennsylvania one). She’s a Linux sysadmin, Puppet user, and developer, and she is already helping us tackle a project we’ve been putting off for months. You can find her on IRC as “crinkle”. If you’re igalic or blkperl then I preemptively ban you from asking her for PR merges! :) Other People This is already longer than an Oscar acceptance speech, so I want to wrap up by just saying that we have a bunch of other fantastic people that help us keep this show on the road. Lauren Rother helps ensure modules have documentation that makes sense, Heidi Pio shouts at us when we don’t close JIRA tickets, Justin Stoller makes the CI environ
[Puppet Users] First anniversary of the module team
The 1st anniversary of the module team! Hello from the module team here at Puppet Labs! I’m starting this email with a lie because I’m not sure exactly when our first anniversary really is, but I started on the 1st of July and the team had only just gotten started, so that’s as good a date as any. For those readers who are unaware, the module team at Puppet Labs exists primarily to implement the supported modules initiative. For anyone that missed the announcement last year, the goal of supported modules is to help you more easily discover amazing modules and offer support for those modules to Puppet Enterprise customers. Over the last year we’ve been laying the foundations to make this sustainable (and making it up as we go along). In order to support modules across the diverse set of platforms PE runs on, we’ve had to experiment with and learn how to test modules in a sustainable, scalable way, and over the last year we’ve been trying to accomplish that. Members of the team Before we talk about what we’ve been doing over the last year, I thought it would be nice to briefly talk about who is in the team, our backgrounds, and where you can get hold of us. I’ll list everyone in the order they joined the team to make life easy for me. Hunter Haugen Hunter was the very first member of the team and many of you know him as “hunner” on IRC. Previously a member of the Professional Services team, Hunter spent his time traveling and visiting customers all over the world. His background, like mine, is mostly UNIX systems administration. He’s responsible for the huge refactoring of the apache module a while back, and is all over the popular puppetlabs modules we hope you’re all using. Ashley Penney This one is me. I’m “ashp” on IRC and hopefully I know many of you. I’ve been a Puppet user since the start of 2008, when I spent most of my time harassing Luke on IRC over “bugs” I found that turned out to be fundamental design decisions. I’ve been in operations for ~12 years, and this is the only job I’ve ever had where nobody will wake me up at 0300 to let me know everything has crashed and the world is on fire. It’s pretty awesome. Chris Hoge Anyone here who has used the openstack modules can thank Chris for putting in a ton of work to make them awesome. Just before I took this job, I tried to use the puppetlabs openstack modules and after a week I threw up my hands and gave up as nothing worked. Now they actually work and are awesome. Progress! Chris primarily focuses on openstack, but he sometimes has to wrestle modules that are dependencies into shape (like mongodb!). You can find him as “hogepodge” on IRC. Travis Fields Travis joined to help the module team build out and build up awesome modules specifically for Windows. The rest of us are Linux users, so we often just threw up our hands and said “I can’t fix that!” when modules had issues on Windows. Since joining the team, he’s taken over the reboot and registry modules, fixed vcsrepo to work on windows, taken on the new acl module, as well as fixed a number of issues throughout our tooling to make sure Windows is a true first class platform for modules instead of something we hide under the bed from. Travis goes by “cyberious” on IRC. Morgan Haskel Morgan previously worked with Onyxpoint (a long time Puppet community member!) on Puppet modules. Battle-scarred from forcing complex modules into behaving properly, she joined Puppet Labs to help us write amazing supported modules. She’s brought some adult supervision to the team and ensures we’re on a regular cadence for module releases. You can ask her questions about Hadoop (she’ll love it, I promise) on IRC as “_morgan”. AJ Johnson The almost-newest member of the team is our boss; he's in charge of ensuring we’re all pointing in the right direction and focused on actually building things the community benefits from. He escaped from IBM to come wrangle the team into a semblance of order and make sure we’re on track to deliver supported modules! Colleen Murphy The actual-newest member of the team comes to us for the summer as an intern from PSU (that’s the portland one, not the Pennsylvania one). She’s a Linux sysadmin, Puppet user, and developer, and she is already helping us tackle a project we’ve been putting off for months. You can find her on IRC as “crinkle”. If you’re igalic or blkperl then I preemptively ban you from asking her for PR merges! :) Other People This is already longer than an Oscar acceptance speech, so I want to wrap up by just saying that we have a bunch of other fantastic people that help us keep this show on the road. Lauren Rother helps ensure modules have documentation that makes sense, Heidi Pio shouts at us when we don’t close JIRA tickets, Justin Stoller makes the CI environment work, John Duarte shakes his head at our attempts at risk assessments and testing plans, Ryan Coleman helps us figure out what we’re even meant to be building in t
