Vox Pupuli Changelog - Migrating jcpunk/tuned to Vox Pupuli
Due to high demand in the community, we migrated jcpunk/tuned to Vox Pupuli.
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2023
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Cleaning up puppet-lint plugin permissions
We have cleaned up the GitHub permissions for all the puppet-lint plugins. Previously, our GitHub group collaborators had write access. This group is meant t...
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Migrating jcpunk/sssd to Vox Pupuli
Due to high demand in the community, we migrated jcpunk/sssd to Vox Pupuli. We did the first release today.
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Deprecating old modules
Puppet stepped up and is interested in maintaining some of our (archived) windows modules. Today we migrated the following git repositories to them:
Vox Pupuli Changelog - 2FA for our GitHub org
GitHub will soon enforce two factor authencation for all users in our organisation. Most of you already have it enabled. Instead of being locked out of our o...
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Vox Pupuli Sponsoring
Since Configuration Management Camp 2023, people can finally donate to Vox Pupuli!
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Add Puppet 8 support
Today, 2023-07-02, we started to implement Puppet 8 support for our modules. This has a few constraints: Puppet 8 AIO packages bundle Ruby 3.2 because o...
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Use/Require puppetlabs/stdlib 9
Starting Today, 2023-07-01, we are implementing puppetlabs/stdlib 9 support in our modules. The 9 release dropped a lot of functions or namespaced them. Wher...
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Deprecating old modules
As a result of a set of discussions on IRC and on the mailinglist. We will archive the following modules due to lack of community engagement:
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Dropping Puppet 6 support
Starting today, 2023-04-28, we are dropping Puppet 6 support from our modules. Puppet 6 is end of life since 2023-02-28. Puppet’s policy on EOL is available ...
Your new PMC officers for 2023
Well, [[checks watch]] would ya look at that. It’s March 23, UTC, and that means that it’s time to close the PMC elections. Not only that but as it turns out...
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Dropping Ruby < 2.7 support
This is our new blog series, where we inform you about changes within Vox Pupuli itself or our codebase! Today we start with the first one, information about...
Make puppet module documentation great again!
A long long time ago I can still remember… Dominic Cleal created puppetmodule.info. Inspired by rubydoc.info, the site generates documentation for Puppet mod...
Vox Pupuli Changelog - Migrating jsok/vault to Vox Pupuli
Due to high demand in the community, we forked jsok/vault to Vox Pupuli. We did the first release today.
Vox Pupuli Elections, 2023 edition
As announced at CfgMgmtCamp this week, we are kicking off the “annual” PMC elections process. For an increasingly loose definition of the word, this is a yea...
2021
GitHub sponsors Vox Pupuli
At Vox Pupuli we love CI! We heavily use GitHub Actions to run multiple jobs on each new pull request. All our releases are done via GitHub Actions as well. ...
The new CI setup for RubyGems
Some time ago we migrated all Puppet module CI jobs from Travis-CI to GitHub Actions. We’re now in the process to do the same for all of our Rubygems. We had...
Vox Pupuli migrating from Freenode to Libera
In the summer of 2021 a lot happened around freenode. The IRC network is now maintained by new people. As a consequence many open source communities migrated...
2020
Installing Puppet Webhook using system repositories
After an extremely long wait and lots of work from the Vox Pupuli PMC, we are happy to announce that we finally have APT and YUM repositories for Puppet Webh...
2019
Setting up Vim for modern Puppet development.
There’s a lot of fanfare for text editors like Visual Studio Code and Atom for general development these days while those that utilize Vim, Neovim, and Emacs...
Vox Pupuli at the Contributor Summit
Hello everyone!
Deprecating the puppet3 branch
Hello everybody! A long long time ago, we started to drop Puppet 3. During that process, we created a legacy branch, called puppet3. Puppet 3 is end of life ...
Code of the Week 3
This is a new blog series that we would like to introduce. At Vox Pupuli, we receive many Pull Requests. We receive so much awesome code, that isn’t really a...
Code of the Week 2
This is a new blog series that we would like to introduce. At Vox Pupuli, we receive many Pull Requests. We receive so much awesome code, that isn’t really a...
Dropping Puppet 4 support
Puppet 4 reached End of Life on 2018-12-31. There isn’t an official support matrix for the FOSS components. For Puppet enterprise this can be found here. PE ...
Code of the Week 1
This is a new blog series that we would like to introduce. At Vox Pupuli, we receive many Pull Requests. We receive so much awesome code, that isn’t really a...
2018
Vox Pupuli PMC voting period results!
Voting has concluded and results are in for the 2019 calendar year Project Management Committee.
Vox Pupuli PMC voting period now open!
Voting is now open for the 2019 calendar year Project Management Committee, with seven great candidates to choose from.
Announcing the third Vox Pupuli Elections
Vox Pupuli has opened elections for the 2019 calendar year Project Management Committee. The elections were announced at Puppet’s Contributor Summit Online. ...
Announcing a Privacy Policy
I’m sure everyone is tired of the innundation of Privacy Policy update emails that you’ve been getting over the last several weeks. I’m happy to say that Vox...
Voxpupuli Community Journey
Vox Pupuli - The Funny Community Journey
Project Management Committee election results 2018
This year, we have five people self-nominate to be PMC members for the next year. As we only had 5 nominations and 5 seats, there was no need to run an elect...
Announcing the second VoxPupuli Elections
Vox Pupuli is having, somewhat late, it’s second election for the project management committee. This blogpost will give you the context and how to become a c...
2017
Puppet_Webhook reaches 1.0.0
We are excited to announce that after nearly two months of development we are releasing version 1.0.0 of the Puppet_Webhook Sinatra REST Server for R10K and ...
Using github_changelog_generator
With the upgrade to Puppet 4 in all of our modules, we have also added the gem github_changelog_generator. This is an automated tool to generate a CHANGELOG....
Migrating a Module to Puppet 4
We announced the deprecation of Puppet 3 in our modules already. There are a few steps needed to be taken before a Puppet-4-only release can be done:
2016
Putting down Puppet 3
Puppet 3 is officially end of life on Jan 1, 2017. That is 8 days from today. Vox Pupuli’s plan for deprecating Puppet 3 support in modules is as follows:
Another year of VoxPupuli
It’s been one more year of VoxPupuli goodness. We thought we’d look back on what we’ve accomplished this year and celebrate. This year we solidified our iden...
Project Management Committee election results
The PMC elections have been over since a couple of days and the results were posted to the mailing lists early Monday morning.
Project Management Committee elections 2016
After a small delay due to travels on my part we are now all set to start the vote on who will be part of the 5-seat PMC. Though I can repeat the announcemen...
Puppet-Corosync reaches 5.0.0
This is a great moment for Vox Pupuli’s puppet-corosync module. The 5.0.0 major release is there, with lots of new features and improvements. Please also not...
Vox Pupuli needs you!
What a time to be alive in the Vox Pupuli community! As more, more and more repositories join our namespace (welcome!), our community now counts 70 members.
Announcing the first VoxPupuli Elections
Vox Pupuli is about to live its first elections. This blogpost will give you the context and how to become a candidate.
Voxpupuli - Opensource Speedtrain
This is the transcript of a talk I gave at PuppetCamp Paris & London 2016. You can find the slides can be found on my blag
Puppet-corosync at Puppet Camp Paris
Yesterday, I have given a talk at Puppet Camp Paris about Types and Providers development, based on my experience with the puppet-corosync module. It was a g...
Vox Pupuli, a new name, a new site
A new year, a new name and a new website. A lot has happened for our pet project this year. Many new contributors and code joined our organisation but the bi...
2014
Linting metadata.json
In the recent past, the metadata.json file has replaced the Modulefile as the place where metadata about a Puppet module is kept. The Modulefile has a simple...
Purging ssh_authorized_keys with Puppet
Purging SSH authorized keys used to be the number one top-voted ticket in the Puppet issue tracker. A community member Felix Frank has solved the issue by ad...
Puppet caching
With Puppet 3.6 out the door and the new caching mechanisms it provides I started exploring how to do caching with Puppet. A thank you goes out to Ken Barber...
Contributing to modules
As one of the ‘maintainers’ of puppetlabs-apt I get pull requests in my inbox on a weekly basis implementing some kind of feature. This is really cool. It me...
Modern testing in Puppet
At Puppet Labs, we’ve been busy over the last few months, working on overhauling our public modules to treat them as distinct pieces of software rather than ...