[chef-dev] generating node configuration files with knife -- plugin or patch chef/ core?

[Bryan Berry < >]

 I was thinking of writing a knife plugin  so that you could run $ knife node create --to-file foo1  ; it writes a json doc to  chef-repo/nodes/foo1.json  with a basic template

 

Or should i try to modify chef code itself to add this trivial piece of functionality? I haven't had a lot of luck with my pull requests lately. I am not sure if it is because my code is crap (highly possible) or if you the chef-devs are extremely busy (also highly possible)