[chef-dev] Re: Cookbook Releases

[Leif Madsen < >]

On 30/08/12 12:05 AM, Joshua Timberman wrote:
> We're still working through the backlog of COOK contributions from you, our 
> awesome community. I cannot stress enough how much we appreciate the time and 
> effort put into every ticket reported and pull request sent our way. This 
> culture of sharing is truly awesome. If you'd like to participate in our 
> community summit in October, there's plenty of tickets available. Also, you 
> can get in-person hugs if that's your thing :-).
>
> In addition to reviewing contributions from the community, we're working to 
> add basic test-kitchen support and clean up foodcritic warnings (at least for 
> correctness) across our cookbooks. All cookbook testing prior to new releases 
> will go through test-kitchen, so this is a very important project.
>
> Anyway, we've released a few cookbooks over the past week or two, and more 
> are on the way. Full details are available in the CHANGELOG.md of each 
> cookbook, and the tickets mentioned. We would like to thank Tim Smith from 
> WebTrends for his work on the nagios cookbook. Along with other contributors, 
> he's made a lot of great improvements to the cookbook and making it even more 
> data driven through the Chef Server API. Thanks Tim!
<snip>
> We have over 100 tickets that have been resolved and merged that need to be 
> tested before release. We're working on the test process and integrating 
> support for test-kitchen along the way. We'll also be closing old pull 
> requests in the legacy monolithic cookbooks repository, so please do update 
> those to the standalone repositories in opscode-cookbooks organization.

This is great! Really glad to hear about all the changes and focus on 
adding automated testing for the cookbooks going forward. That kind of 
focus is just amazing when it comes to cookbook changes getting merged 
and immediate notification of unexpected changes.

I'm curious if it would be too much to ask for period updates to the 
list about recent releases of cookbooks and the overview like you've 
provided here? Perhaps it could happen every 2-3 weeks so it's not a 
huge burden.

Thanks!
Leif.


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