IAC & DevX Updates; PDK improvements picking steam!
Tags: team, status, terminology, intern
Published: 2021-04-21 21:39:16

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title: IAC & DevX Updates; PDK improvements picking steam!
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date: 2021-04-16 00:00:00 UTC
tags: team,status,terminology,intern
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## Community Contributions

We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:

- [`puppetlabs-apt#985`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt/pull/985): “apt::mark: fix docs”, thanks to [kenyon](https://github.com/kenyon)
- [`puppetlabs-haproxy#477`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-haproxy/pull/477): “Fix ‘option’ entry name in option\_order hash”, thanks to [antaflos](https://github.com/antaflos)
- [`puppetlabs-mysql#1378`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql/pull/1378): “Fix: Puppet Unknown variable: ‘mysql::params::exec\_path’”, thanks to [JvGinkel](https://github.com/JvGinkel)
- [`puppet-strings#272`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-strings/pull/272): “Update CODEOWNERS”, thanks to [binford2k](https://github.com/binford2k)
- [`puppet_litmus#407`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet_litmus/pull/407): “(maint) Update bolt requirement to include 3.x”, thanks to [beechtom](https://github.com/beechtom)

Check [all the ways to reach us](/iac/team/2021/01/20/reaching-out.html) if you want to directly contact us about anything module related.

## New Module / Gem Releases

The following modules were released this week:

- [`puppetlabs-stdlib`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib) (`7.0.1`)
- [`puppetlabs-postgresql`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql) (`7.1.0`)
- [`puppetlabs-ibm_installation_manager`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-ibm_installation_manager) (`3.0.1`)
- [`puppet-litmus`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-litmus) (`0.26.3`)

## Developer Experience

The DevX team is starting to build steam! [Ciaran](https://github.com/sanfrancrisko) spent the week reviewing existing tickets for what bugs and features to tackle next, with a focus on pkd validate as the next likely candidate. [David Armstrong](https://github.com/da-ar) spent some time in researching our packaging process to plan improvements in reducing the size of the PDK package. This week [James](https://github.com/jpogran) delivered a presentation on VS Code :fire: tips and tricks at the April Puppet Camp. Recordings will be available soon. A lot of people responded to the PDK Survey, so we will be closing that this week and will report the results next week

## Terminology Changes

I am happy to announce the end of our terminology work, as of yesterday all _master_ branches have been removed from our supported modules and tools, and with the previous work done to remove any mentions I am happy to declare this piece of work closed.

A big shout out to [David Swan](https://github.com/david22swan) (i.e. Me!) for heading up this work.

## Intern Update

Disha’s attended her 1st Puppet Camp this week! Check out her blog of what she is up to this week [here](https://puppetlabs.github.io/iac/lifeofinternatpuppet/post_31.html)