[chef] Re: Re: Re: Cookbook Releases, summit edition

[Hedge Hog < >]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Alex Howells 
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> On 5 December 2011 19:40, Hedge Hog 
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>> For those unaware there is http://github.com/cookbooks ... which
>> currently has one cookbook per repo.
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> I would prefer to see an Opscode implemented approach which ties into
> opscode.com under the Community Cookbooks site, and has some of the
> 'social' aspects which were discussed in depth during the Summit. Not
> to say a 3rd party approach won't be individually successful and
> viable to continue.

Definitely, this isn't an either or proposition. I see this account
doing things that complements whatever Opscode does or comes up with,
as well as whatever any other consulting shop creates:
- Continue to track cookbooks Opscode, or any other upstream that is
followed, drops.  See the recent email outlining Opscode-discontinued
cookbooks, one of which had a team member step-up earlier.
- Track cookbooks that Opscode et. al. don't and won't

Recall from the earlier email discussion Opscode had to adopt a
monlithic repo (cookbooks) as a mechanism for ensuring compatability
between cookbooks.  I thought Bundler would allow individual repos,
and while that won't work for the foreseeable future, it seems
librarian might work out.  So essentially Librarian allows you to even
be independent of github.com/cookbooks :)

From what you mention and from Github's site motto (social-coding) it
really sounds like Opscode is closer to specializing and competing
with Github that with what this account does.
As it stands, this early and with only moderate levels of effort,
there are 190-odd repos tracked in github.com/cookbooks, I'd envision
this growing over time into the 1000's, judging from the discontinued
cookbooks it seems clear that Opscode envisions the Opscode repo count
being in the 100's.

Again just what happens at github.com/cookbooks really depends on the
number and activity of team members.

Hope that clarifies

>  -Alex



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