[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Centralized cookbook-library repos vs distributed cookbook repos

[Adam Jacob < >]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Hedge Hog 
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> Thanks wading through all the arguments and, to my mind, accurately
> summarizing them...

This thread is awesome, and it highlights some things that I think are
important.

The first is that we can build a better developer workflow for
collaborating on and re-using cookbooks.  The conversations around
sub-modules, etc. all fit in this category - it's obvious and clear
that we can make it easier. This problem domain is about making the
collaboration process and development as friction-free as possible.

The second is that we have a publishing problem that we've taken a
stab at solving, but haven't integrated as deeply into the process as
we should.  This is the side of the issue where the problem is "I want
to discover the right Apache cookbook for me", and it contains within
it things like documentation standards, cookbook downloading, and
putting the right hooks in to the first problem so that when you go
from passive consumer to active developer the road is easy.

I think it's important to separate the publishing part of the workflow
from the development side - this is the reason why we have package
management systems in the first place. :)

Adam

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