[chef] Cookbook maintenance problem

[Bráulio Bhavamitra < >]

Hello all,

This subject was already discussed early, but as things really needs
to get better I'm revamping this.

I see that some authors made a lot of cookbooks. Then they cannot
handle and maintain them well. For example, the nginx cookbook, misses
many configuration options and has a long list of pull requests
(https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/nginx/pulls) mostly without any
comments on them.

So for these cookbooks it is necessary to change the maintainers or
add new active and experienced developers to them, don't you think?
How could that be done?

Cookbooks that matches the exact name are really important, so they
need to keep up with the users' needs.

cheers,
bráulio