[chef] Re: Re: Re: Contribute to the elasticsearch cookbook?

[Peter Donald < >]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Denis Barishev
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 wrote:
>> The "ospcode-cookbooks" organization on GitHub contains only cookbooks
>> that we directly publish, maintain and support, all under the
>> "opscode" user on the community site. Everyone is free to share their
>> own cookbooks on the community site (and host the code repository
>> wherever they like).
>>
>> http://community.opscode.com/users/opscode
>
> Thanks that exactly what I thought. This cookbook is heavily outdated. Could
> we publish the new cookbook in the opscode repository? I think it would be
> problematic to contact the author, the cookbook is dated to 2010 and it's
> too old. Though I haven't try to contact the author... I mean the author
> doesn't support the cookbook, so this may just turn into a waste of time.
> It also concerns all other cookbooks that are forgot by their authors. They
> don't have any life in their repositories.

This is a concern I also have. I have several cookbooks that have the
same name as those on the community site so I never bothered to look
into what would be required to release them there. If we could somehow
add a "name" field to the metadata that the download tool could use to
name the directory downloaded into (or perhaps rework the way recipes
are named to be based on names rather than directory names) that would
solve a lot of these issues.

> Actually I have also created the
> new graylog2 cookbook which uses elasticsearch.

I would be very interested in these - we already have custom
mongo/graylog cookbooks that were derived from somewhere in the wild
at one stage. I am a week or two away from upgrading from 0.9.5p1 to
the latest and would like to share the effort if possible. Are these
stored in a github repository anywhere?

-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald