[chef-dev] Re: ideas for chef-hackday at Chefconf, Tuesday afternoon, May 15

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:

> Yo Chefs!
> 
> Somehow I have been drafted into organizing a Chef hackday on the
> Tuesday afternoon ahead of Chefconf. For this Hackday to be somewhat
> productive, esp. in such a short window of time, it needs to be very
> focused. My initial thoughts are to focus on testing as that is my own
> current focus. What would you Chef-devs like to see such an event
> focus on?
> 
> My idea so far is to focus on testing the application cookbook in
> every possible configuration using various methodologies such as
> vagrant, toft, chefspec, etc. Even better test it on different
> platforms. As Jay Feldblum has suggested in the past, each cookbook
> needs to be a self-contained project, including with its own set of
> battle-hardened integration tests. My only concern about focusing on
> the application cookbook is that it is currently undergoing a lot of
> change.
> 
> I would love to hear from you guys what you would like to see such an
> event focus on. Perhaps testing is boring and we should have an
> installfest putting omnibus through its paces!

Testing was a hot topic at the Community Summit, and I think the crowd at a 
Hackday would be pretty similar in skill level and interests. You can take a 
look at the session topics and write-ups and see if anything else looks 
interesting:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Opscode+Community+Summit+1
 
> 
> I have created this planning document here:
> https://github.com/bryanwb/chef-hackday/blob/master/Planning.md
> 
> yours in cookery,
> 
> BryanWB 


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Dan DeLeo