[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: RE: Augeas support

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Jesse Campbell < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I work in a centos shop, and we run the apache2 cookbook.

It probably took our guys about half an hour to get used to the new location of things.

Would it be easier if we didn't need to change? Sure.

But the fragmentation suggested here depends on a lot of developers on each platform.

Every new feature added to apache2_debian would need to get added to apache2_redhat and apache2_osx and apache2_freebsd, solaris, windows, etc. Then there is testing and bug fixes for every new implementation of the same feature.

Amen. I dare to say that unless someone puts their money where their mouth is and starts coding an apache2_redhat cookbook, this is moot. And then as you say we still have the maintenance problem.

Ultimately this cookbook may be blessed by Opscode, but it's still largely maintained by the community--and so far it seems to me that the large majority is ok with the status quo.

As someone else has mentioned earlier in the thread: this is an opportunity for a consulting firm to jump in and sell a subscription to RHEL blessed cookbooks that fully support Selinux and so on.

Andrea