We have been working on going through the list of submitted patches in Patchwork[0], and the open pull requests in GitHub[1][2][3]. There has been activity on a number of them, but not all with activity have resulted in merged changes.
We also recently finished work on a fix for the problem of using Puppet to install the requirements for types & modules that are shipped to the agent via pluginsync (#6907). This has not been merged yet, but is ready for wider testing, and review[4]. Merged changes in Puppet: Merritt Krakowitzer provided the base fix for updating the lastchg shadow file field on Solaris when changing a user's password (#6371). This has been merged into the 2.7.x, and master branches, and is in the current 2.7.7 RC. Merged changes in Facter: Jason Gill provided support for Parallels Server Bare Metal (#10233). This has been merged into the 1.6.x, and master branches, and released in 1.6.3. Jason Gill provided support for retrieving information about block devices on Linux (#10238). This has been merged into the master branch. Jeff Palmer provided support for Ascendos (#10228). This has been merged into the 1.6.x, and master branches, and released in 1.6.3. Stefan Schulte provied a fix for the macaddress fact incorrectly handling the case where no macaddress was found (#10490). This mas been merged into the 1.6.x branch. [0] https://patchwork.puppetlabs.com [1] https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pulls [2] https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pulls [3] https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-dashboard/pulls [4] https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/223 Current backlog: * #6907 - Ensure providers can be used in the same puppet run that their prerequisites are delivered in * #7316 - puppet applications delivered via pluginsync don't work. * #5517 - Overriding parameters on included & inherited classes * #3741 - Custom facts loaded multiple times * #4916 - Plugins should not be able to override core functionality. * #7788 - Puppet should allow rubygems to deliver new functionality * #3910 - Server is not authoritative over client environment when specified in an ENC * #3534 - Dashboard should support ability to set variables as arrays in the ENC * #2247 - enablerepo and disablerepo for yum type -- Jacob Helwig http://about.me/jhelwig
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