[chef-dev] Accepted RFCs for October 15th

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

I think maybe it would be good for the editor team to notify this mailing 
list when new RFCs are accepted and merged, for those that don't have the 
bandwidth to keep up with the whole RFC process. Do people feel I should CC 
the Chef ML too? 

This week five RFCs have been accepted, all planned for inclusion in Chef 12:

## RFC 22: Arbitrary Cookbook Identifiers

https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc022-arbitrary-cookbook-identifiers.md

This defines a new API to manage cookbooks with identifiers other the current 
three-integer-semver structure in use now.

## RFC 23: Chef 12 Attributes Changes

https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc023-chef-12-attributes-changes.md

This defines several new methods on Node to manipulate attributes. This will 
restore some functionality that was lost during the Chef 11 attributes 
rewrite, including safely deleting attributes and assigning over an existing 
hash.

## RFC 24: Local Mode Default

https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc024-local-mode-default.md

This outlines plans to change chef-client and knife to use local-mode by 
default if no server URL is specified.

## RFC 25: Multitenant Chef Client Support

https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc025-multitenant-chef-client-support.md

This adds additional configuration options to better support multi tenant 
Chef Servers, such as Chef Server 12.

## RFC 26: Remove HTTP Config Files

https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc026-remove-http-config-files.md

This deprecates a relatively unknown feature whereby chef-client can download 
its configuration directly from an HTTP server. Given how little this feature 
is believed to be used, an aggressive deprecation schedule will be used such 
that the feature will throw a warning in future Chef 11 versions and be 
entirely removed in Chef 12.

Thats all for this week. If you have thoughts on this bulletin, please let me 
know!

--Noah

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