[Puppet-dev] Re: Euro/London Presence (was: Re: Re: The Future of Puppet [Was: Deprecation logs])

2016-04-13 Thread Thomas Gelf
Am 13.04.2016 um 19:04 schrieb Thomas Gelf: > [...] but I have always been (and still am) asked whether there is > available something like a "Best practices training". NB: It didn't matter what kind of Puppet class this was. Something like a "Best practices training&quo

[Puppet-dev] Re: Euro/London Presence (was: Re: Re: The Future of Puppet [Was: Deprecation logs])

2016-04-13 Thread Thomas Gelf
Am 13.04.2016 um 17:05 schrieb Rob Nelson: > More of a workshop, than a hackathon? Yes. Kind of a "Getting started hands on workshop". How often have you been asked how to write a module "the right way"? You could use a lot of words explaining many things, or just sit down together and build a con

[Puppet-dev] Re: Euro/London Presence (was: Re: Re: The Future of Puppet [Was: Deprecation logs])

2016-04-13 Thread Thomas Gelf
Am 13.04.2016 um 16:15 schrieb Nigel Kersten: > Thomas, it does feel like you're describing a mix between our > Contributor Summit and #puppethack events. Not really, I guess I didn't cleanly distinct my thoughts. It should read: "Hackathons will not work at entry-level-camps, but you could run so

[Puppet-dev] Re: Euro/London Presence (was: Re: Re: The Future of Puppet [Was: Deprecation logs])

2016-04-12 Thread Thomas Gelf
Am 13.04.2016 um 02:15 schrieb Nigel Kersten: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Trevor Vaughan > wrote: > This is a tangent, but I would also like to see more advanced > content at the Puppet Camps. > > Would anyone be open to a dual tracked Puppet Camp

[Puppet-dev] Re: The Future of Puppet [Was: Deprecation logs]

2016-04-10 Thread Thomas Gelf
Am 11.04.2016 um 03:01 schrieb Rob Nelson: > Of course there's lock in. You can't click a button and go from Puppet > OSS to Chef OSS; [...] > Is their concern about being able to contribute to it or even fork? I > suspect that's what most lock in concerns are really based on. It's about going f

[Puppet-dev] Re: Idea: Deprecation logs

2016-04-10 Thread Thomas Gelf
Am 11.04.2016 um 00:47 schrieb James Turnbull: >> One last very important factor to the mentioned frustration is the fact >> that Puppet is an Open Source product. People over here in Europe see >> this stricter than they might in the US. If you say "...and it has an >> Enterprise version", 99% of

[Puppet-dev] Re: Idea: Deprecation logs

2016-04-10 Thread Thomas Gelf
Hi Eric! Am 10.04.2016 um 21:16 schrieb Eric Sorenson: > On Apr 10, 2016, at 2:05 AM, Alex Harvey > wrote: > > [...] I've been the product manager for Puppet for the > four years you're talking about and thus bear at least partial > responsibility for the changes in

[Puppet-dev] Re: Idea: Deprecation logs

2016-04-10 Thread Thomas Gelf
I feel a little bit guilty, as my short comment somehow started this thread. But as the discussion seems to move to a good direction, let me jump in :) Am 10.04.2016 um 18:51 schrieb R.I.Pienaar: >> I guess what this shows is that even when changes don't appear to be >> user-impacting, they are. [

[Puppet-dev] Re: Puppet RFC 23 - XPP Files

2016-04-04 Thread Thomas Gelf
Am 04.04.2016 um 03:21 schrieb Henrik Lindberg: >>> We are happy if we initially only get 5-10% out of this... >> >> And this is where I currently disagree. Very often I invest lots of time >> for just 1%. But being able to run without a fragile caching layer could >> be worth even 50% as long as I

[Puppet-dev] Re: Puppet RFC 23 - XPP Files

2016-04-01 Thread Thomas Gelf
Am 01.04.2016 um 20:59 schrieb R.I.Pienaar: > Indeed and if you recall there was a similar outcry when passenger became > the de facto way. The java stack as delivered by PL in PuppetDB and Server is > a LOT more manageable than the passenger stack. I do not agree on this, at least I never had

[Puppet-dev] Re: Puppet RFC 23 - XPP Files

2016-04-01 Thread Thomas Gelf
Hi Deepak, great to hear from you. Didn't expect you to join the conversation, but as I offended your baby... sorry for this ;) Am 01.04.2016 um 20:42 schrieb Deepak Giridharagopal: > ... Maybe the thing to do here is to try some experiments and post back > some numbers that could hopefully grou

[Puppet-dev] Re: Puppet RFC 23 - XPP Files

2016-04-01 Thread Thomas Gelf
Hi Henrik, thanks a lot for your response! Am 01.04.2016 um 20:21 schrieb Henrik Lindberg: > The C++ implementation is several orders of magnitudes faster than the > ruby implementation. i.e. something silly like tens of thousands of > times faster. No doubt on this, I believe you without any be

[Puppet-dev] Re: Puppet RFC 23 - XPP Files

2016-03-31 Thread Thomas Gelf
Hi Eric, your dedication in getting Puppet faster is really appreciated. My post is absolutely not in favor of XPP, but please don't get me wrong: it is meant to be a constructive contribution to the current design process. In my personal opinion we have a sad history of optimizations focusing a

[Puppet-dev] Re: Idea: Deprecation logs

2016-03-20 Thread Thomas Gelf
Hi Rob, nice proposal, would definitively help people to deal with the stated problem. Another approach could be to break and deprecate less things. Sure, I'm just kidding ;-) I love moving things forward. But you know, there's a grain of truth in every joke. We should not forget about the fact