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

[Bryan Berry < >]

thanks kallistec! i will look through that

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
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>> Yo Chefs!
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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!
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> 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 
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> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Opscode+Community+Summit+1
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>> I have created this planning document here:
>> https://github.com/bryanwb/chef-hackday/blob/master/Planning.md
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>> yours in cookery,
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>> BryanWB
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