Puppet: State of the Community 2012

State of the Community James Turnbull, Dawn Foster, Andy Parker | Puppet Labs james@puppetlabs.com dawn@puppetlabs.com andy@puppetlabs.com

Me • Wrote some stuff • VP Technical Ops at Puppet Labs • Funny accent • Film fan# puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Favorite film? # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Awwww!# puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Agenda • Introductions • The state of the community • Initiatives • Ask not what your community can do for you • Questions# puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Introductions New faces

Introductions # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Dawn Foster • 2 day at Puppet Labs as Community Manager nd • 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 # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

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) # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

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) # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Show me the metrics!Lies, damn lies, and statistics

The year that was… • Puppet user mailing list membership was 3000 • 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 # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

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 # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Inconceivable!# puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.# puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

But what about the Rodents of Unu^H^H Errr…. Development?# puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

How much is going on? 2464 2447 Commits 1265 1254 1205 1123 9304752005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

But who is doing all this? 187 99 158 80 Contributors Commits/Contributor 50 41 63 34 37 19 30 22 25 24 632005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

What does it all add up to? 141,126 137,743 116 108 108,636 103,118 86 82 89,304 77 76,891 SLOC # Providers 58 50,497 4221,635 12 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

So what’s next?For the Puppet community

Initiatives • Questions and Answers • More responsive • More metrics • More awesome # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Q&A site • Not everyone likes mailing lists • Leverage success of sites like Stackoverflow # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

More responsive • We suck sometimes • We’re getting better • Really. # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

More responsive Call us out if we’re not! # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

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 # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

More awesome • Talk to us • Complain to us • Give us feedback we can action • Help us out! # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Ask not what your communitycan do for you but what you can do for your community

The Puppet Community We want you!# puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

We need your help! • Documentation • Facter • Code & Tests (and Testing) • Modules! # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

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! # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

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 # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Modules • Share and publish your modules • Fork and develop modules • Module bounties! • Module A, B, and C • Forge: http://forge.puppetlabs.com/ # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Code & Testing • Triage Puppet bugs and features • Write code • Write tests • Test releases! # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

I can do that? # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Yes you bloody well can # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Get some tips • Getting Started with Contributing to Puppet and Facter • Hailee, Tesca and Ruth • Meeting Room 1 at 1.15pm # puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Questions

Oh and BTW…. • PuppetCamp Nuremberg • October 19th, 2012 • http://www.netways.de/puppetcamp# puppetconf # puppetize @ puppetlabs

Puppet: State of the Community 2012

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