[chef] Re: Orphaned Cookbooks?

[Ben Hartshorne < >]

Are you asking only for cookbooks that appear in the community.opscode.com listing or any cookbooks living out there in github land as well?

I will nominate:

* route53: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/route53
 - I have not specifically emailed the maintainer but there are 
outstanding pull requests and issues that have been unaddressed for as 
long as 6 months.
* cassandra: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/cassandra
 - it has obviously broken parts and an email (from a coworker) to the 
maintainer went unanswered.  It also doesn't seem to exist in github, so
 there's no way to offer pull requests.

I don't know that I'm qualified to maintain the cookbooks, though I 
do at least have a pull request open against the route53 cookbook.  

-ben

p.s. 
 sending publicly in case the maintainer of either is on this list and 
cries "Hey, that's mine!" and then accepts my patch.  :)

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Mike < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi everyone!

A topic that was discussed at this year's Chef Community Summit was
the occurrence/problem of orphaned cookbooks.

In the past, the topic of namespacing the community site was
discussed, and I thought it might be prudent to determine the scope of
the problem.

I am trying to aggregate a list of cookbooks that you believe to be
abandoned/orphaned, and are effectively "squatting" on a cookbook name
that you think is either a "bad" cookbook that is not being
maintained, and that you may have sent patches to or tried to
communicate with the maintainer unsuccessfully.

Here's an example I have:
scout_agent [0] - I've tried to communicate with the maintainer
unsuccessfully, and I'm committed to maintaining this cookbook.

So feel free to respond, either publicly or privately, and I will
collect whatever results I get for the next couple of weeks.

This information may inform future proposals in regards to community
maintenance of cookbooks, but the effort won't be made unless the
problem can be proven.

Thanks for your time, and hope that your 2013 has started out well!

-Mike Fiedler
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g: @miketheman
t: @mikefiedler

[0]: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/scout_agent