[chef-dev] Re: Ownership Changes of Chef Cookbooks Revisited


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  • From: Christopher Webber < >
  • To: Ryan Hass < >
  • Cc:
  • Subject: [chef-dev] Re: Ownership Changes of Chef Cookbooks Revisited
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 17:48:17 -0700

I can speak to that…

So the hope is that we will see a “soft opening” of the new community site, aka supermarket in the next few weeks. With that said, http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2014-05/msg00279.html has a pretty good summary of the state of things.

As far as adding things like the metrics below or the button to flag a cookbook as needing a new maintainer you can submit a Pull Request to https://github.com/opscode/supermarket.

We are actively looking for contributions and would love to see the community hack on what they see as important.

With that said, please reach out via IRC, Gitter, this list, email or whatever if you have any specific questions.

Thanks!

— cwebber


On May 27, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Ryan Hass < "> > wrote:

Can anyone at Chef disclose estimated time-lines and planned features
for the "new community site?" I think it is a good long term solution.

Nevertheless, If we are a long way out from launch of this new site it
makes sense to discuss a policy and governance approach.


On 05/24/2014 12:58 PM, Clinton Wolfe wrote:
Just spit balling here...

Perhaps this sort of thing could be taken into account in features of the
"new community site".  I'm thinking of the rating system - there was some
discussion at the community summit of having multi-dimensional ratings,
like maturity, quality, features, stability, etc.  I think maintainer
commitment could be a category, perhaps.

Alternatively, one could imagine metrics being displayed on the community
site - something like average time to respond to an issue, issues open
longer than X days, etc.

Or: a button to flag the cookbook as needing a new maintainer. That would
need moderation, I imagine.


On May 24, 2014 3:44 PM, "Scott M. Likens" < "> > wrote:

Hi,

Please note I don't work for Opscode (Getchef) so this is just my view.


On 5/23/14 1:58 PM, Ryan Hass wrote:

A little over six months have gone by since many of the cookbooks were
handed off to various community maintainers. Now seems like a good time
to continue this discussion with wisdom at hand; I am sure many others,
like myself may have questions and surely have ideas on how to improve.

Many of the cookbook maintainers have done an outstanding job of working
with the community, resolving issues, and accepting and mentoring
changes. Unfortunately, there are a few which have not met the quality
standards which preceded their maintainer-ship. Having said this, I
would like to discuss the Chef governance policy with regards to
maintainers whom have been unable to fulfill their duties, and the
process of ensuring these cookbooks continue to have high quality going
forward.

Some questions I have are:

* What is the current governance of cookbooks which were previously
maintained by Chef (Opscode)?

* How can the community get involved in this governance process to
ensure high quality standards persist for said cookbooks?

Issues and Pull requests are you best friend here.  Taking back a cookbook
is likely not easy; it would be easiest to fork it and point everyone to
the new fork? There likely should be a policy here or otherwise we'll step
on peoples feelings.

(squishy!)

Please do not hesitate to share your questions or thoughts on the
subject of the cookbooks which were handed off. As mentioned, I am sure
there are many others with related questions and ideas on the topic.

-Ryan H.
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