[chef] Re: Re: status of test-kitchen?

[Bryan Berry < >]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Joshua Timberman 
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> Hi Bryan,
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> On Sep 26, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Bryan Berry 
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>  wrote:
> Bringing up the topic on the mailing list(s) is good though, and this is 
> exactly the kind of topic that the chef-dev list and #chef-hacking IRC 
> channel are intended to facilitate.
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>> I have gotten the distinct impression that test-kitchen is the preferred 
>> testing tool for the opscode-cookbooks/ set of cookbooks. However, at this 
>> stage I find myself just spending to much time fighting w/ test-kitchen. I 
>> would like to know if anyone plans to put in the time and effort to bring 
>> test-kitchen to a more stable and usable form. I would love to pitch in, 
>> but right now my priority is to improve the state of the 
>> database/postgresql and java-related cookbooks.
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> Your contributions to the cookbooks are awesome, thank you. The 1.6.0 
> release of the Java cookbook passed a test-kitchen run, too :-).
>

Tks, I used test-kitchen for my changes to the java cookbok but I have
to say I found it quite frustrating and time-consuming. I hope the
process gets the smoother in the coming weeks.

Good to hear that you guys are still focused on improving test-kitchen