Right now facter has a branch called 2.x, which was supposed to be getting ready for a 2.0.0 release of facter. That hasn't happened yet and there are quite a few changes on the 2.x branch (and master since there are no differences between the two). I'd really like to see those changes be released and after looking over them I think we should release most, but not all, of those changes as a Facter 1.7.0.
In my analysis of the changes between the 1.6.x branch and the 2.x branch I found: * external facts (new feature, backwards compatible) * whitespace stripping (new feature, backwards incompatible) * various new facts (backwards compatible) * removal of the memorytotal fact (backwards incompatible) * removal of the iphostnumber fact (backwards incompatible) * changes to the memory facts (backwards incompatible) So the plan would be to make a 1.7.x branch off of master and revert those backwards incompatible changes. Remove the 2.x branch and have development toward Facter 2 take place on master. However, even with that, there would need to be some QA and testing love given to the 1.7.x branch. I can make the branch and revert the obviously problematic changes, but I'd really like some help on trying it out and getting it in shape for a release. Other ways people could help out would be to work out a way of making some of those changes not be backwards incompatible (for instance the changes to the memory facts could probably be fixed up). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
