[chef] Re: Re: chef & hoptoad

[John Merrells < >]

On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

> This is awesome. Any plans to publish the gem?


I don't think it really warrants being a gem. I think it should be added to 
the 'chef::client' 
cookbook recipe... then the user could select the notifier(s) they want 
enabled via the
cookbook attributes.

On a related topic... I still don't quite grok how one can contribute back to 
the cookbooks...
there are multiple repos of cookbooks... and multiple repos of single 
cookbooks... so its
kinda hard to contribute.

So far I've found the existing cookbooks to be a very useful crib for writing 
my own... often
I copy one, hack away the stuff I'm not interested in (apache, etc) and then 
add the few 
small twiddles I need (e.g. nginx). 

Also, I tend to work on a recipe until it works for me.... and then stop 
working on it... and
I don't bother making it generic enough for anybody to use..... me being lazy 
but I think
the contributing back hurdle is too high. 

John

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