[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: CHEF-154 and upcoming change to runit cookbook

[Hedge Hog < >]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Joshua Timberman 
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> Ohai,
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> On 1/24/13 1:38 PM, "Hedge Hog" 
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>>This is an exemplary change notice.
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> Thanks :-D.
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>>Is there a Cookbook convention yet for distributing notices like these
>>with a cookbook?
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> What we do now:
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> 1. Update the CHANGELOG.md with the tickets in the release
> 2. Update the individual tickets with relevant information, if required.

Thanks for the insight.

> Most cookbooks don't get this kind of dramatic change, though.
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>>Maybe a cookbook can have an optional notices folder, with markdown
>>files named by the version number?
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>>cookbooks/runit/notices/0.16.2
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>>thoughts?
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> It's an interesting idea. However, the main issue I see is that it won't
> end up in the cookbook shared on the community site. The only directories
> there are the ones loaded by Chef (attributes, definitions, libraries,
> providers, resources, recipes, files, templates). This means many users
> who obtain cookbooks from the site won't have it, and would need to
> reference the changelog, tickets, etc anyway.

You're right, it has to be available via the data loaded by
Chef-client|solo to be widely distributed.
It seems then that a general way to bring such notices to the
attention of the cookbooks user is via some reference added to the
(long) description in metadata.rb.

Thanks again
Hedge

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