Vox Pupuli - Empowering the Puppet Community

# Vox Pupuli - Empowering the Puppet Community

## Spontaneous OSDC 2019 Edition
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## $ whoami

* Tim 'bastelfreak' Meusel

* DevOps Engineer at GoDaddy EMEA

* Puppet Contributor since 2012

* Merging stuff on Vox Pupuli since 2015

* Vox Pupuli PMC member

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## Vox Pupuli

### What?

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* 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

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## Vox Pupuli

### What?
### Who?

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* 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

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## Vox Pupuli

### What?
### Who?

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* 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

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## Vox Pupuli

### What?
### Who?
### Why?

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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

* Everything has to work on multiple Ruby/Puppet versions

* Rubocop

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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 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

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## Vox Pupuli

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

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![Right-aligned image](travis.png)

* Free platform

* rpsec-puppet common Puppet*Ruby versions

* release modules to the forge

* 10-60min per module

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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

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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

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

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

* 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 our third Project Management Committee last fall!

* PMC enforces CoC

* Brings Vox Pupuli into the Software Freedom Conservancy

* (This point is on the slides since 2016. But we're almost done! "Just" every PMC member needs to sign a document from the SFC)

* 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

* Work on our style/review guidelines at [https://voxpupuli.org/docs/#reviewing-a-module-pr](https://voxpupuli.org/docs/#reviewing-a-module-pr)

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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

* You have domain specific knowledge?

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

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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 #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](https://github.com/bastelfreak/talks#collection-of-talks-proposals-and-related-stuff)

### Thanks for your attention!

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