[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Invidious choices 301: Chef (0.10.4) vs Cucumber (1.1.0)

[AJ Christensen < >]

On 20 October 2011 09:57, Hedge Hog 
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> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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>>> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Hedge Hog 
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>>> > > Currently it appears that it is not possible to have both cucumber and
>>> > > chef in the same bundle/Gemfile:
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>>> > > Bundler could not find compatible versions for gem "json":
>>> > >  In Gemfile:
>>> > >  chef (~> 0.10.4) ruby depends on
>>> > >  json (<= 1.5.2, >= 1.4.4) ruby
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>>> > >  cucumber (>= 1.1.0) ruby depends on
>>> > >  json (1.5.4)
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>> Feel free to contribute a patch.
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> Ok, but last I looked there were restrictions (and understandable
> ones) on who could making patch contributions?
> Has this changed?

You have to sign a CLA or CCLA, but that's standard Apache license
shit. IANAL, read this for the full details:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/Chef/How+to+Contribute

I've been a contributor since 0.5 with little restrictions imposed:
I'd highly recommend it.

–AJ

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>> We're very conservative with the JSON gem because of a painful experience 
>> where it was not working correctly with ohai for several months. That 
>> said, I believe some users have tested the latest JSON gem and it fixes a 
>> bug for RHEL users so it would be good to pick up the update.
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>> --
>> Dan DeLeo
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