[chef] Re: Re: Contributing to Cookbooks (was chef & hoptoad)

[John Merrells < >]

On Jul 15, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Alex Soto wrote:

> 
> First I mainly spend my time with chef developing cookbooks, so how would I 
> 'contribute' a cookbook while not incurring a lot of overhead ?  For 
> example, I create a cookbook that I haven't seen in the wild, I'd like to 
> publish it for others to use and enhance, but since it's in my private 
> repo, how would I do that?

Thanks to Josh's informative emails, I've been pondering on this in the 
background most of the afternoon.

Looking at my site-cookbooks I notice that there's a pattern developing. I 
tend to create subclass cookbooks.
So, for example I'll create site-cookbooks/jm_memcached, which includes 
cookbooks/memcached, and then
adds my own twiddles. I think this addresses the public vs private problem.

Adding my initials to the name is kinda icky, but if this is a common pattern 
then Chef/Knife could codify 
it with some namespace support, or cookbook inheritance, or something.

John

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