• Maintain many many Puppet modules

• Be helpful and polite to each other

  • Be open-minded to people and technology

• Provide a home for orphaned Puppet modules

• Unite lonely module and tooling authors to a collective

• Ensure continued development for our code

• Currently 134 people with merge permissions

  • We were 113 in February 2018

  • We were 107 in October 2017

  • We were 80 in November 2016

• Just 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

• Many git newbies

  • Rebasing a feature branch against upstream master is hard

• Many newcomers to test frameworks

  • Dealing with rspec/rubocop/beaker is hard as well

• Many administrators of legacy infrastructures

  • Stuff older than Puppet 5 without proper hiera5/datatype support

• 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

  • Everything has to work on multiple Ruby/Puppet versions

  • Rubocop

  • Rubocop

• We are managing more than 113 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

• Free platform

• rpsec-puppet common Puppet*Ruby versions

• release modules to the forge

• 10-60min per module

• creates a virtual machine or docker instance

• starts a complete OS in it

• executes puppet in it

• checks if everything looks as expected

Can be executed:

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

• with docker on travis

• https://github.com/underscorgan/community_management

  • Open Issues and PRs sorted in different ways

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

  • Also open PRs

• https://github.com/voxpupuli/thevoxfox

  • IRC bot, allows us to merge stuff + trigger modulesync (soon, maybe)

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

  • count contributions

• https://voxpupuli.org/docs/#reviewing-a-module-pr

  • Really Awesome review guidelines!

• We have great tooling and automation

• We have great people

• 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

• You have domain specific knowledge?

  • Ruby, Python, Rspec, Beaker, $software we automate

• You want to help out?

  • We are always looking for new Collaborators and Maintainer

Contact:

• IRC #voxpupuli on freenode

• Slack: #voxpupuli on puppetcommunity.slack.com

• voxpupuli@groups.io

• pmc@voxpupuli.org

• tim@bastelfreak.de

• More talks at https://github.com/bastelfreak/talks

Thanks for your attention!