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

[Joseph Holsten < >]

On 2012-04-25, at 17:11, Andrea Campi wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Bryan Berry 
> <
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>  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 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.

woot!