-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/02/10 3:27 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: > Hi List! > > So I was talking with several folks on IRC this morning, and we came up > with an idea. > > One of the strengths of Puppet is it has a very large community with > tons of systems administration experience. This is huge. I'd like to > unite that experience more closely, so that this power is immediately > available and obvious to new and existing users. Currently we have a > large collection of repos, some containing one module, some containing > many, but they are fragmented:
Mike I'd love to see this get off the ground. There have been a couple of attempts at it - and you can see some background at: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/CommonModules http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ModuleStandards > What I'd like to do initially is start getting these together in one > giant curated repo, hosted on our github space, that makes it easier for > all Puppet users to contribute to. Sounds great - we had a play with a couple of ways to do this - mostly around git submodules (to allow you to check out individual modules from a git repo). I'd personally recommend not going down that path - I had issues. :) > I think we need to start small, and identify some basic concepts we need > a collection of namespaced modules > to have, in order to work together well. If this takes off, we may > want to create a seperate list for development of the common modules -- > TBD -- but we could use puppet-users for now. I think the primary issue here is to have some common rules for handling certain scenarios: 1. Cross-platform support 2. Naming standard 3. Module construction I personally don't think these are hard problems to solve and I think it we put together two or three straw man variants as a talking point that'd get us further ahead than talking about it. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEVAwUBS2ipniFa/lDkFHAyAQLuKAgAvMWAhzS3idQrWZ+tVabOmSR1TfNoRBcR HqdIhMkO9tpfV4GKxwgQOcZuD72sIZ5Kil6+WBIx6B/27jXMtPKwLHxc+aT/2Ylh FulUZ9ig0wWdBHiStEMLIW4VjnUM4MEK7lDf4NXz4wi56jdEnXTxQ1O+KGIQG+cg Ui6MvQeDw8TIxhHeJ0EeQ5OJ01MiiL1/3cSqAFcasB6mrDLP/24xvkopp95mkajT N8cnyCtZbX/oj5U9HMNbqDS9C+XhMAuCpyrCyItuAVzoqdY9njLZe4VbUsAIRkIp uXdTkaXZEH5DbheP0ujSsydkJ6GpevTqg2JzeqOSRvlzmvQQBgS1aQ== =uJCK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
