Vox Pupuli - The Funny Community Journey

# Vox Pupuli - The Funny Community Journey
## PuppetConf 2017 Edition
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## $ whoami

* Tim 'bastelfreak' Meusel

* DevOps Engineer for heg.com -> GoDaddy EMEA

* Puppet Contributor since 2012

* Merging stuff on Vox Pupuli since 2015

* Vox Pupuli PMC member

* Organizing BBQ events for Arch Linux Community

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### How to write and pronounce

* Vox Pupuli

* VoxPupuli

* Voxpupuli

* voxpupuli

* puppet-community -> Vox Pupuli

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## Vox Pupuli

* Maintain many many modules

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We maintain more modules than the company Puppet
this leads to some challenges. 88 modules

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## Vox Pupuli

### What?
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* Maintain many many modules

* Be helpful and polite to each other

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24/7 someone is in the IRC to help you
We've a code of conduct but never had to enforce it

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## Vox Pupuli
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### What?
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* Maintain many many modules

* Be helpful and polite to each other

* Be open-minded to people and technology

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People get easily access to our repos
we encourage users to contribute

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## Vox Pupuli

* Maintain many many modules

* Be helpful and polite to each other

* Be open-minded to people and technology

* Provide a home for orphaned Puppet modules

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## Vox Pupuli

* Maintain many many 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
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## Vox Pupuli

* Maintain many many 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

* Currently 107 people with merge permissions

* 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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5 regular contributor work at Puppet Inc.

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## Vox Pupuli

* 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

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Many contributors are new to git and github
Many never wrote tests
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## Vox Pupuli

* Many administrators of legacy infrastructures

* Puppet3, Ruby191, Ruby2.0

* November 2016: Puppet2.7, Ruby187

* Do we already call Puppet4 legacy? (yes pls)

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Was: Ruby hashrocket notation doesnt work on ruby187
Now: There is a strange datatype that my code
Now: Data-in-modules doesn't work
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## 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

* Everything has to work on multiple Ruby/Puppet versions

* Rubocop

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Who tried to fix rubocop warnings in a module and couldnt fix all?

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync

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* We are managing more than 88 modules

* We had 75 in november 2016

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

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

* Works with GitHub Pull Requests

* Everybody can start it

* Every of our Collaborators can approve/merge it

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## Vox Pupuli

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

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

* Free CI platform

* Puppet Inc. sponsors us unlimited? concurrent travis slots

* rpsec-puppet on common Puppet*Ruby versions

* release modules to the forge

* beaker acceptance tests

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync
### travis
### Release task

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* Gem called voxpupuli-release

* provides rake task to bump + tag a module

* Also pushed to the forge

* Upcoming: Also create a github release

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everybody can start it, each collaborator can approve it
We encourage users to contribute by providing easy to use tools

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## Vox Pupuli

## How?
### modulesync
### travis
### Release task
### 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

## How?
### modulesync
### travis
### Release task
### Tooling
### Docs
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* puppet-strings generates html docs

* https://voxpupuli.org/puppet-selinux

* https://voxpupuli.org/puppet-autofs

* https://voxpupuli.org/puppet-mumble

* https://voxpupuli.org/puppet-cassandra

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## Vox Pupuli

### Governance?
###PMC

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* We elected a Project Management Committee in 2016!

* PMC enforces CoC

* Brings Vox Pupuli into the Software Freedom Conservancy

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

* Next election will start soonish

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## Vox Pupuli

### Governance?
### PMC
### Collaborators

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* Review pull requests

* Explain why we don't support ruby187 anymore

* New: Explain why we don't support Puppet3 anymore

* Help with git

* Trigger the automated release process

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## Vox Pupuli

## Governance?
### PMC
### Collaborators
### Officers

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* Election officer

* Spencer Krum (@nibalizer)

* Runs the PMC election 2017

* Security officer

* Julien Pivotto (@roidelapluie)

* Official contact for security issues, deals with CVEs

* Defines our security guidelines: https://voxpupuli.org/security/

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## Vox Pupuli

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![image](bugfix.png)

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people are often scared to contribute
encourage them
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## Vox Pupuli

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![image](eol.png)

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## Vox Pupuli

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![image](travisrestart.png)

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## Vox Pupuli

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![image](spectests.png)

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## Vox Pupuli

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![image](yey.png)

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## Vox Pupuli

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## Vox Pupuli

* `#voxpupuli` (IRC) is the place to be if something is broken

* puppetlabs-stdlib

* puppetlabs-stdlib again

* puppetlabs-apt

* puppet-systemd (sorry)

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## Vox Pupuli

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* 'Release early - release often' - Igor Galic

* 'Version numbers are cheap - use them' - Igor Galic

* 'DevOps is all about empathy' - Rob Nelson

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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 or know one?

* 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 #voxpupli on freenode

* Slack: #voxpupuli on puppetcommunity.slack.com

* voxpupuli@groups.io

* pmc@voxpupuli.org

* tim@bastelfreak.de

### Thanks for your attention!

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