Tag Archives: Development

Using ‘git rebase’ to clean development histories

In general, development in the Puppet world is a series of essentially disconnected batches of commits.  We do a pretty good job of applying related commits all at once, so it’s obvious when a set of commits is related, but … Continue reading

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Summary of February 2009 Puppet Developer call

We had another developer call last night, and until I can get the audio posted, here’s a basic summary. Development Workflow We led the discussion with a conversation about how the development workflow will change now that we’re finally releasing … Continue reading

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A short history of Puppet, pt.1

I was asked recently for more information on Puppet’s history, and although it seems to me that I’ve talked about it plenty,  I guess I might not have written it all out, nor is it necessarily all in one place.  … Continue reading

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Building a Puppet Roadmap

We’ve had a Roadmap for a while, but it’s pretty simplistic, and I haven’t had enough of a plan to be able to reasonably maintain it. In our call today, though, we came up with a pretty clear plan for what we’re going to do next, when we’re going to do it, and what version numbers it will have. Here’s a summary of what we decided (which I’ll then be importing into the roadmap document, where it will actually be maintained). Continue reading

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