[chef] Re: Re: Re: chat logs missing from community/supermarket site

[Nathen Harvey < >]

The legacy IRC logs were intentionally not carried over to the Supermarket.  Primary reason behind this is that, as Noah mentioned, our intent is to make the Supermarket the best place to share Cookbooks and, eventually, other tools and plugins that exist within the Chef ecosystem.

The legacy site included many interesting features that did not directly contribute to this goal including the IRC logs, lists of upcoming meetups, and a (rarely used) questions and ideas section.

We've found that BotBot.me delivers on their promise to "make IRC logs awesome."  Their user experience is definitely much better than the IRC logging we had on the legacy site.

It's reasonable that a URL such as https://community.opscode.com/chat/chef/2014-01-10 should be able to provide more detail than a generic 404.  I've opened Issue #578 [0] on the Supermarket project on GitHub [1].

This is our community site, please help make it better by participating in the process.  (In case it's not clear, everyone who participates in the community is covered under the word "our" in the previous sentence.  Please DO NOT misread "our" as "Chef Software, Inc.")

[0] https://github.com/opscode/supermarket/issues/578

[1] https://github.com/opscode/supermarket

Thanks!

Nathen

@nathenharvey

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Jul 9, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Phil Mocek < "> > wrote:

> Signed PGP part

> Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> > chef software isn't maintaining logs any longer
>
> Have Opscode intentionally purged the log archives they previously
> published?

I don't work for Chef Software so I can't speak to their intention, but I would guess it was deemed a non-critical feature of the old site. The old community site had a large number of features that were not carried over as they weren't critical to the core goal of improved cookbook sharing (ex. indexing Chef meetup events). I would continue this guess forward that if you were interested in submitting a pull request with this feature for the new site, they would be happy to provide it to the community (either as a new web app or as part of supermarket), though I'm sure the devil would be in the details.

--Noah