[chef] Re: Re: Orphaned Cookbooks?

[Mike < >]

> 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?
Let's start with the ones on the Community Site.

Thanks!
-M

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Ben Hartshorne 
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.  :)
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> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Mike 
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>> Hi everyone!
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>> A topic that was discussed at this year's Chef Community Summit was
>> the occurrence/problem of orphaned cookbooks.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> [0]: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/scout_agent
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