[chef] Re: Cookbook reusability

[Wes Morgan < >]

On Mar 5, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Nikolay Sturm wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after adapting more than enough community cookbooks to our local setup,
> I published a blog entry yesterday to describe my idea of improving the
> status quo wrt/ reusable cookbooks:
> 
> http://blog.nistu.de/2012/03/04/reusability-in-configuration-management-systems/
> 
> I would love to discuss these ideas and see what people think about it.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Nikolay
> 
> --
> "It's all part of my Can't-Do approach to life." Wally

Here here! I couldn't agree more with your suggestions.

In addition, I think we need better tools to manage, share, and collaborate 
on our cookbooks. So, for example, if I write a cookbook that's 
tightly-coupled to my infrastructure and you come along and improve it along 
the lines you describe in your post, there should be a way for you to put 
your version forward to the community and then for everyone to collectively 
communicate that yours is the new best version and submit their own 
improvements, etc.

So this could be a layer on top of GitHub (and we'd need to make the 
knife-GitHub integration more official), or it could be a vastly-improved 
community.opscode.com, or something else entirely. But right now there is 
just too much friction between "I've made this cookbook more general" and 
"this is now the primary version of this cookbook."

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