[chef] Community cookbook maintenance (was: Re: Reprepro cookbook)

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Adam Jacob 
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 wrote:

> To speak for Chef Software directly, we have always had people on staff
> whose role was assisting the creation and maintenance of cookbooks. That
> number has fluctuated up and down over time, with the skill sets of people
> we hire, and the normal day-to-day ebb and flow of trying to figure out how
> to build a business that is successful. We have people on staff today who do
> the same. What is clear is that the energy around cookbooks in the community
> is far greater than the energy we can muster as an organization (regardless
> of how much capital we do or do not have - y'all outnumber us) - and so our
> focus today is on trying to build and support the best community we can,
> through development of the supermarket, better tooling, and providing a few
> key examples of how best to build a community cookbook (see Sean's work on
> the httpd cookbook.)
>
> Perhaps we need to organize a PR/merge festival brigade?

Hey Adam,

Would we consider transferring some of those cookbooks our of
{opscode,chef}-cookbooks to a community-organized org like
chef-brigade (https://github.com/chef-brigade) or redguide
(https://github.com/redguide) for better maintenance? What would be
the preconditions to doing that?

Personally I would like the chef-brigade and redguide to be merged,
but I do not remember all the players involved -- if they are on this
list perhaps they can speak up.

- Julian