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Convener:Robert J. Berger
Participants: Fletcher Nichol, Aaron Bento, Michael Leinartas, Shawn OMeara
Summary of discussions:
- Generally Individuals do just enough for their own environment, want to encourage people to work together to improve existing cookbooks or create new ones
- Could have some folks port to different platforms
- Coordinate with the authors of Opscode and other cookbooks to make sure we aren't doing redundant efforts
- Encourage people who have a personal cookbook but need help to get it in shape for public release
- Mix physical and virtual meetups
- Style guid will be helpful
- We could give feedback to styleguide
- Styleguide could be used to judge what cookbooks need updates and what to do
- Create a set of guidelines to decide which cookbooks to update
- Paramerterize / hooks to allow easy ways to use different package managers, from source
- Break out install and configure recipes
- Use LWRP and libraries to impove readability and extensibility
- Supporting more complicated configurations (master/slave, distributed)
- Proper splitting of recipes, LWRP, attributes, data bags
- Can start with mini tutorial from Opscode personnel or other domain or cookbook experts
- How do we do collaborative group efforts
- Start out with group web meeting
- Break up into pairs or small groups to work on specifics using collaborative remote tools or at local meet ups
- Way to allow people to ask for help / review
- Get domain expert who may not be a chef expert
What will we do now? What needs to happen next?
- Create a wiki/ forum thru Opscode
- Create a way to rendezvous with people who want to work on stuff on the wiki/forum
- Wiki page on Opscode that at least points to things
- Draw n community of specific domain experience
- Coordinate with chef and devops meetups
- Coordinate with Jesse and the person from Opscode who will be the Sheppard
- Tie in with contests
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