[chef] Future of the application cookbook

[Andrea Campi < >]

Hi all,

I was wondering what's happening with this cookbook and what is the
plan going forward.

As you probably know the application cookbook is, uhm, problematic;
there are a number of issues open, some of them opened recently.

coderanger has done some very interesting work, that is a pretty big
departure from the current way but is IMHO a very good way of handling
this.
There is also my fork and pull request that strives to be backward
compatible while still fixing the biggest problems.

So, what's the plan?
Anything holding up integration of coderanger's work? Any worry about
backward compat?
Would it make sense to add coderanger's cookbook with a new name, and
provide a deprecation and migration path, to avoid having a flag day?

Andrea