+1 to any well-formed data about modules.  FWIW, there was a discussion last
year about storing metadata in JSON or YAML format.

J.

On 31 May 2010 03:10, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:

> "Gabriel - IP Guys" <gabr...@impactteachers.com> writes:
>
> > Just a idea to float out here among puppet forge users,
> >
> > Can we have a readme standard? For example, we could have a format like
> the
> > following
>
> FWIW, a *great* model to follow is probably the standard Unix manual page
> format, which has had thirty years of working reasonably well for
> documenting
> this sort of thing.
>
> If you forgive my linking into a Perl tool, this is probably the most
> user-friendly documentation about the structure of a good manual page for
> software tools I know of:
>
>  http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/pod/pod2man.PL#NOTES
>
> Specifically, the 'NOTES' section includes the details on how to structure
> the
> manual page and what to include in each section.
>
>
> Using a model like that means the puppet community can work from the base
> of a
> good, solid existing practice rather than inventing their own standards —
> and,
> of course, having to rediscover the same problems everyone else ran into.
> :)
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
>
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