[chef] Re: Cookbook Releases - Unsent draft edition

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Oh! A grievous error on my part, I forgot to mention that Darrin Eden is 
helping us maintain the pdns cookbook (powerdns). Thanks Darrin!

On Jul 8, 2013, at 10:32 PM, Joshua Timberman 
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> Ohai Chefs,
> 
> I thought for sure I had sent this out previously, but I can't find it 
> anywhere in my sent messages. If you already received it, redundancy is 
> good in operations :-).
> 
> In addition to the cookbook releases, we have a couple announcements about 
> cookbooks.
> 
> First, Tim Smith has provided a lot of fixes and feature additions to our 
> Nagios cookbook. He has agreed to help us maintain the cookbook going 
> forward. We look forward to his continued leadership in this cookbook's 
> development, and awesomeness for Nagios+Chef users.
> 
> Second, David Petzel has agreed to take over maintenance of our Zenoss 
> cookbook. As we do not use Zenoss internally or with any customers as part 
> of a supported offering, we'll transition this one fully to him.
> 
> Third, Xavier Lange agreed to take over maintenance of the god cookbook. 
> The transition isn't finished yet, but will be coming soon.
> 
> Finally, I'm taking on maintenance of ossec, samba, snort, and gnu_parallel.
> 
> This is part of an effort to focus our community cookbook development on 
> the ones we actively use in our own infrastructure, have support agreements 
> with our Hosted and Private Chef customers, or are through work by our 
> services team. We're looking for more folks to either help us maintain 
> cookbooks, or take over maintenance entirely.
> 
> Thank you,
> Joshua
> 
> ## apache2 v1.6.6:
> 
> 1.6.4 had a missed step in the automated release, long live 1.6.6.
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-3018]: apache2_module does duplicate delayed restart of
>  apache2 service when conf = true
> - [COOK-3027]: Default site enable true, then false, does not disable
>  default site
> - [COOK-3109]: fix apache lib_dir arch attribute regexp
> 
> ## application_nginx v1.1.0:
> 
> ### Improvement
> 
> - [COOK-2579]: `application_nginx` cookbook should accept
>  "`application_port`" as string for unix sockets
> 
> ## ark v0.3.0:
> 
> ### Improvement
> 
> - [COOK-3087]: Can't use ark with chef < 11
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-3064]: `only_if` statements in ark's `install_with_make` and
>  configure actions are not testing for file existence correctly.
> - [COOK-3067]: ark kitchen test for `cherry_pick` is expecting the
>  binary to be in the same parent folder as in the archive.
> 
> ## java v1.12.0:
> 
> ### Improvement
> 
> - [COOK-2154]: Add SmartOS support to java::openjdk recipe
> - [COOK-3278]: upgrade to Oracle Java 7u25
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-2931]: Adding support for the platform 'xenserver' (for
>  installations of java in DOM0)
> - [COOK-3277]: java cookbook fails on Fedora
> 
> Previously, v1.11.6:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-2847]: Java cookbook does not have opensuse support
> - [COOK-3142]: Syntax Errors spec/default_spec.rb:4-8
> 
> ## logrotate v1.2.2:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-2872]: Add firstaction/lastaction ability to logrotate
> - [COOK-2908]: Argument error in `logrotate_app` definition
> 
> ## nagios v4.1.4:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-3014]: Nagios cookbook imports data bag users even if they
>  have action:remove
> 
> ### Improvement
> 
> - [COOK-2826]: Allow Nagios cookbook to configure location of SSL
>  files
> 
> ## openldap v0.11.2:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-2496]: openldap: rootpw is badly set in attributes file
> - [COOK-2970]: openldap cookbook has foodcritic failures
> 
> ## passenger_apache2 v2.0.2:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-2750]: using `mod_rails` in `run_list` by itself fails in
>  version 2.0.0
> - [COOK-2972]: `passenger_apache2` has foodcritic errors
> - [COOK-3180]: don't use `mod_rails` recipe w/ package install
> 
> ## powershell v1.1.0:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-2974]: powershell cookbook has foodcritic failures
> 
> ### Improvement
> 
> - [COOK-2586]: Create a `powershell_out` mixin to be able to use in
>  LWRPs for calling powershell
> 
> ## python v1.3.4:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-3137]: `python_pip` LWRP cannot have differnent name and
>  `package_name`
> 
> ## runit v1.1.6:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-2353]: Runit does not update run template if the service is
>  already enabled
> - [COOK-3013]: Runit install fails on rhel if converge is only
>  partially successful
> 
> ## samba v0.11.4:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-3144]: Wrong service name in samba cookbook
> 
> ## tomcat v0.14.2:
> 
> ### Bug
> 
> - [COOK-3165]: Typo in tomcat attributes/default.rb file for
>  `webapp_dir` attribute on Debian/Ubuntu
> 
> ## webpi v1.2.2:
> 
> ### Improvement
> 
> - [COOK-2719]: update webpi documentation to show that Windows 2012
>  and Windows 8 are supported
> 
> ## windows v1.10.0:
> 
> ### Improvement
> 
> - [COOK-3126]: `windows_task` should support the on start frequency
> - [COOK-3127]: Support the force option on task create and delete
> 
> ## yum v2.3.0:
> 
> ### New Feature
> 
> - [COOK-2924]: Yum should allow type setting in repo file
>