Vox Pupuli - Empowering the Puppet Community

# Vox Pupuli - Empowering the Puppet Community

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## $ whoami

* Tim 'bastelfreak' Meusel

* Systems Engineer for heg.com

* Puppet Contributor since 2012

* Merging stuff on Vox Pupuli since 2015

* Vox Pupuli PMC member

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## Vox Pupuli

## What is Vox Pupuli?

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* Provide a home for orphaned Puppet modules

* Unite lonely module and tooling authors to a collective

* Ensure continued development for our code

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## Vox Pupuli

## Who is Vox Pupuli?

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* Currently 80 people with merge permissions

* A few people work for Puppet Inc.

* Most of the contributors participate in their free time

* Normal administrators that have to deal with puppet at work

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## Vox Pupuli

## Who is Vox Pupuli?

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* Many git newbies

* Many administrators of legacy infrastructures

* Puppet2.7, Ruby187

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## Vox Pupuli

## Why is Vox Pupuli?

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* Maintaining a module on your own is hard

* Changing best practices, vacations, losing interest

* Proper testing of a module requires a lot of stuff from the ruby ecosystem

* Ruby ecosystem and related tools are changing too fast for a single person

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?

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![Right-aligned image](automate.jpg)

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync

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* We are managing more than 70 modules

* modulesync was developed by Puppet Inc, moved to Vox Pupuli

* It takes a config file + templates, throws it into every modules git repo

* Everybody can start it

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync
### travis

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* Free platform

* rpsec-puppet common Puppet*Ruby versions

* release modules to the forge

* 10-60min per module, doesn't scale :sadface:

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync
### travis
### beaker

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* creates a virtual machine or docker instance

* starts a complete OS in it

* executes puppet in it

* checks if everything looks as expected

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync
### travis
### beaker

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* creates a virtual machine or docker instance

* starts a complete OS in it

* executes puppet in it

* checks if everything looks as expected

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync
### travis
### beaker

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Can be executed:

* on your notebook before you contribute a patch (same for rspec)

* with docker on travis

* on our own infra with docker or QEMU/Virtualbox

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync
### travis
### beaker
### Tooling
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* https://github.com/underscorgan/community_management

* Open Issues and PRs sorted in different ways

* https://voxpupuli-open-prs.herokuapp.com/

* Also open PRs

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync
### travis
### beaker
### Tooling
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* http://voxpupuli.bastelfreak.de/

* IRC stats

* https://github.com/bastelfreak/contributorstats

* count contributions

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## Vox Pupuli

## Governance?

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![Right-aligned image](leadership.jpg)

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## Vox Pupuli

## Governance?
###PMC

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* We elected a Project Management Committee this fall!

* PMC enforces CoC

* Brings Vox Pupuli into the Software Freedom Conservancy

* PMC guidelines are created by the community https://tinyurl.com/voxpupul-governance-md

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## Vox Pupuli

## Governance?
### PMC
### Contributors

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* Review pull requests

* Explain why we don't support ruby187 anymore

* Trigger the automated release process

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## Vox Pupuli

## Summary

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* We have great tooling and automation

* We have great people

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## Vox Pupuli

## Summary

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* We have great tooling and automation

* We have great people

* You need help with Puppet?

* Let us know, we help out!

* You have an orphaned module?

* Ping us, migrate it to us

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## Vox Pupuli

## Summary

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* You want to help out?

* We are always looking for new Collaborators and Maintainer

Contact:

* IRC #voxpupli on freenode

* Slack: #voxpupuli on puppetcommunity.slack.com

* pmc@voxpupuli.org

* tim@bastelfreak.de

### Thanks for your attention!

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