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

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Bryan Berry 
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> 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 think this is a brilliant idea; too bad I won't be there :(

The application cookbook sounds like a good choice; I expect the
refactoring will be finished by then.