Hello All, Today marks my first full year as product owner for the Puppet Forge. It's been a great year for Forge, made possible by many of you with great module contributions. I'll make an effort to write more regularly to all of you about Forge going forward, but today I'm here to write about our brand new module engineering team.
Just today, our module engineering team doubled in size with Ashley Penney (ashp) joining Hunter Haugen (Hunner) who's been on the job for about a month. They're both incredibly experienced sysadmins and are longtime members of the Puppet community. There is no shortage of cool things for this team to work on, but there's a large backlog of work to catch up on first. Puppet Labs has sixty-nine modules on the Forge today and though certain modules are well maintained, we need to do a better job with the others. The task put in front of the module engineering team is to bring these modules into a well-maintained, high-quality state where we can begin regular maintenance and development. We're starting with these five modules, in no particular order. http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/ntp http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/apt http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/firewall http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/mysql http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/apache These modules have a combined 78 open pull requests, hundreds of open issues and many missing tests. It's fantastic to have this volume of community contributions, please keep them coming! We've always worked to triage incoming PRs but now with a dedicated team behind them, we're shooting for a point where each PR you submit will receive attention within a few days time. That said, it's going to take a few months for the team to work through each of our modules and start routine maintenance on each. In addition to being more transparent about what we're up to, I'm hoping to solicit your help in reaching our goal sooner. For example, we've got the Puppet Triage-A-Thon coming up on Saturday July 13th. This is a great opportunity to get together with community members and Puppet Labs employees to pour over module issue trackers, hack on modules and more. There are tons of issues that could use a lot of eyes, giving the module engineering team a clearer path to resolving all open issues. If you're interested in joining, sign-up here: http://triagepuppet2013.eventbrite.com/ You can observe and participate in our module development efforts by following the Project URL link on each Forge page to GitHub. I'm pretty keen on the pulse view. I'll attempt to keep you informed on the teams efforts as things progress. Please help me welcome these two, who are already doing an awesome job. Thanks for being a part of the Puppet community! -- Ryan & the Forge Team at Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
