Wednesday, Stage, 11:30

• Convener / Facilitator -
• Note taker - Aaron Kalin (@martinisoft)

• Hans
• Daniel
• Adam S
• Mike

• Where can I find community cookbooks? Chef Supermarket
• Can we use Rubocop to improve quality of cookbooks?

• Actively maintained (Responsive owner, not abandoned)
• Documentation (Accessible, easy to get started, well documented libraries)
• Uses tools like Rubocop, Cane, Foodcritic, Test-Kitchen to maintain code quality
• Stable Interface (Does not change often)
• Versioning (Use Semver)
• Idempotent (Can be run multiple times with the same result)
• Can easily setup complicated systems (e.g. ElasticSearch)

• Supermarket Governance is the Seattle summit discussion about namespacing, code quality, etc.
• Managing Community Cookbooks with a Busy Schedule is another discussion about tools and patterns emerging for more community-friendly, reusable cookbooks
• MySQL cookbook is a good example of an emerging pattern using libraries and resources
• httpd cookbook is also a good example of reusable resources
• Facebook has started using large hash attributes for templating configuration files, check out their open sourced cookbooks under https://github.com/facebook

• Does it translate to Chef?
• For community cookbooks, how do you properly version dependencies for your cookbook? Should it be permissive?

• Code Metrics
• Test Coverage?
• Currently Supermarket shows number of downloads, runs foodcritic now and shows the results
• A deprecated flag can be set by a maintainer to point to a better cookbook

• Hard to get started with some community cookbooks
• You usually duplicate functionality before using an existing library