[chef] Re: Chefconf Hackday results

[Brad Knowles < >]

On May 21, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Eric G. Wolfe wrote:

> I opened a JIRA ticket [COOK-1298] intending to use NTP as a reference 
> cookbook for platform edge-case testing.  It seemed like a good hello world 
> example to test this idea out.  So, not actually sure if I'll pull request 
> this or not.  I guess I am looking for validation from others on the 
> mailing list that this idea is not, in fact, stupid.

Speaking as a representative of the NTP Public Services Project (see 
<http://support.ntp.org/>), I think we would very much welcome any work that 
is done anywhere in any community that would be likely to help increase the 
quality of the NTP deployments that might be rolled out anywhere in the world.

With my Chef hat on, I think that you have picked wisely, precisely because 
the NTP cookbook should be pretty simple, and it should make a good "Hello, 
world" type of example that can hopefully be followed by others.


That's all theory, of course -- I haven't actually looked at any of the 
changes yet, and I know nothing about the generation of "attribute sanity 
tests" or "foodcritic linting", so I'll have to go see if I can make heads or 
tails of the output.

> I have squashed the commits in the following tree, to hide any drunken 
> commit messages which may, or may not, have occurred at Chefconf.  Check it 
> out, and let me know what you think.  The TESTING.md is meant to serve as a 
> HOWTO document for testing cookbook inputs as we have done here.
> https://github.com/atomic-penguin/ntp/tree/COOK-1298

I'll take a look at this when I can, but I can't make any promises.  The next 
few weeks are likely to be very busy for me.

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