[chef-dev] 6/21 Opscode Code Review

[Bryan McLellan < >]

We're getting all merged up for a release candidate next week to begin 
testing for the 11.6.0 release!

Merge:
  OHAI-445 - Detect ecdsa host key
  OHAI-461 - Provide networks information on rackspace nodes
  OHAI-466 - Detect rackspace via metadata
  OHAI-419 - cloud.public_ipv4 attribute is not set for Windows Azure VM's 
created using knife azure plugin.
  COOK-2724 - create directory for pid file
  COOK-3118 - template in ark provider fails due to cookbook attribute not set
  COOK-3183 - Allow the nginx cookbook to include extra-cookbook modules
  COOK-1651 - Add dateext ability to logrotate to enable date stamping of 
rotated files
  COOK-2925 - chefspec coverage for nginx::default and nginx_site definitions

Other:
  OHAI-458 - Include Joyent SmartOS specific attributes in Ohai
  Reopened - Keep the non-specific attributes with the virtualization plugin
  OHAI-165 - Ohai loads user accounts from LDAP directory
  Reopened - Break into separate nss_via_etc and parse_etc_files plugins.
  OHAI-454 - Ohai fails to read LSB information on RHEL 6.4
  Reopened - Need tests, lots of tests. LSB is frail.
  COOK-3167 - lvm_physical volume lwrp should follow symlinks for devices
  Reopened - File.readlink does not follow symlinks
  COOK-2705 - Add ability to change tcp_listen_options in config
  Reopened - Where does tcp_listen_keepalive come from?
  COOK-2562 - Make it easy to configure a primary and failover nagios server
  Wont Fix - Use the solution that exists.
  COOK-2906 - Powerdns geo backend support added
  Wont Fix - Probably not popular enough of a feature.
  COOK-2046 - Add RHEL support to thrift cookbook
  Reviewed - Probably should move the thrift cookbook to the community.
  COOK-2805 - Basic config attributes for management plugin
  Reopened - Improve attribute namespace.

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Bryan McLellan | opscode | technical program manager, open source
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