[chef] Reusable steps: PoV request

[Hedge Hog < >]

Hi,
After some patches to split steps out of Cucumber-Nagios, Auxesis
asked me to take the project over.
That should happen in the next while.

Essentially the idea was that the gem Cuken (pronounced cookin') be to
Cucumber-Nagios use cases what Aruba is to Cucumber.
Of course Cuken uses Aruba's steps.

I see that some of Chef's steps were in Cucumber-Nagios - they are now
(refactored in some cases) in Cuken.
In the course of some work I find myself needing some Chef related
steps, which of course exist in Chef in one form or another.
It seems sensible that I copy these into Cuken.

My question:  Is there much interest in such a library of reusable
Chef steps, and would Chef (upstream) even consider using such a
library?  It would mean a Chef dev dependency on Cuken.
Ideally I'd like to keep things such that you can require just those
steps you need. e.g

require 'cuken/chef/knife'
and
World(::Cuken::Api::Chef::Knife)

Appreciate any thoughts or feedback.
For instance one issue is what is the assumed feature runtime
env/location: The chef server machine, the chef client machine, the
dev machine (or will it be possible to be agnostic about this?)

Best wishes.

P.S.
I also find myself needing some VirtualBox related steps (from the
virtualbox gem), so the scope of Cuken is likely to be dev-sysops use
cases.

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