Charm needed: Status.net

[Jorge Castro]

People will want to deploy internal microblogging for their companies, etc.

http://status.net/

[Nathan Osman (george-edison55)]

I have just finished testing this charm and I believe it is now ready as well. There are 3 required configuration options that must be set before the application will finish installation and finish setting everything up: 'nickname', 'password', and 'email'. These correspond to the username, password, and email address of the administrator respectively.

Please let me know if you have any questions / comments / problems running the charm.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hi George! Thanks for the submission.

*****Blockers:*****

[1]
$ charm proof statusnet
W: relation website has no hooks

This is a broken relation. The interface requires that on join, you do 'relation-set hostname=`unit-get private-address` port=80'. This is so that a load balancer or some other proxy can sit in front of your server.

[2]
/copyright
George, how come you have assigned copyright to Nathan Osman? Was that intentional? It seems rather odd that you would write a charm but give copyright to someone else without explaining that fact.

*****End Blockers *****

*****Bugs (not blockers, need to be fixed shortly or opened as bugs in the charm):*****

/hooks/install

juju-log "Downloading StatusNet"
cd /tmp
wget -q http://status.net/statusnet-1.0.1.tar.gz

juju-log "Verifying archive integrity"
HASH=`md5sum statusnet-1.0.1.tar.gz`
if [[ $HASH != '727a7cfe7e9531b732739dabd295bcb9 statusnet-1.0.1.tar.gz' ]] ; then
    echo "Hash verification failed!"
    exit 1
fi

We have a set of tools for automating common tasks like this. You can install them like this in your install hook:

add-apt-repository ppa:charmers/charm-helpers
apt-get update
apt-get -y install charm-helper-bash

Then you can replace the block above with

. /usr/share/charm-helpers/sh/net.sh
ch_file_get http://status.net/statusnet-1.0.1.tar.gz 727a7cfe7e9531b732739dabd295bcb9

/hooks/config-changed

As I understand it, the service isn't usable until you have an admin username/password/email. You should add an 'else' clause to the big if there that logs a warning..

juju-log -l WARNING "Admin nickname/password/email must be set before site will be configured"

*****

Next steps: fix the two blockers, they should be relatively quick, then re-add the 'new-charm' tag to this bug and we'll import it into the charm repo! THANKS AGAIN!!

[Nathan Osman (george-edison55)]

Okay, I have made the requested modifications:

[1]: I have added that line to the installer.

[2]: Nathan Osman is actually my real name - although I use the name 'George Edison' as my username, I always use my real name for copyrighting code, etc. After talking to Jorge Castro, I discovered that I can change my display name on Launchpad, so I just did that :)

As for the bugs:

hooks/install: I added the code that takes advantage of the charm helper scripts as you suggested.

hooks/config-changed: I have added the warning.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Cool thanks Nathan aka George. ;)

The website relation is still broken, the relation-set needs to be in a *hook* script, not install, specifically hooks/website-relation-joined

Not a blocker, but in install, you need to add the 'add-apt-repository ppa:charmers/charm-helpers' and subsequent apt-get update for the charmers PPA, as charm-helper-sh is not yet guaranteed by juju to be available. The only reason that will work now is because you happen to be using the PPA version of Juju.

[Nathan Osman (george-edison55)]

I have corrected these two issues now.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Awesome Nathan, looks good! I have imported this as the "official" statusnet charm.

Next Steps:

I would recommend you go here:

https://launchpad.net/charm/+source/statusnet

And click

Subscribe to bug mail.

You can continue to maintain your personal branch of this charm, and when you want to update the official one, propose a merge. A member of charmers will sponsor it into the official charm promptly.

THANKS!