Namespaces and Versioning - chef-boneyard/chef-summit-2014 GitHub Wiki
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- Cookbooks are dead that are taking up commonly searched names within supermarket. What governance process needs to exist to solve this issue.
- Should we have a knife supermarket delete to delete cookbooks that are published
- Fail forward with versions instead of adding a delete api. This is a dependency management system.
- Mark the version as bad - then all tools will skip this version
- Back on discussion of Namespace
- James RFC - NPM governance of how to reclaim namespace.
- Pure abandonment policy issue
- Use tags in metadata.rb to make tags within supermarket?
- Be able to give away the cookbook and name. Allow maintainer to give it up and let anyone take it. How to accomplish?
- Trying to solve new-user experience
- Discovery and identification (googoo => mysql)
- Popularity and quality in search results
- Create an editors choice tag on supermarket.
- RubyToolBox.... as an example
- James RFC - NPM governance of how to reclaim namespace (abandonment).