Platform Team Week of August 8th, 2014

[Andy Parker]

** Next PR Triage Wednesday, August 13th @ 10:00 am Pacific. **

Priorities

  1. Puppet 3.7.0/4.0.0 with the final language polish as well as many other changes.

  2. Windows stability improvements/x64 support

  3. CFacter on the march

  4. New puppet doc implementation

Commentary

There was a bit of kerfuffle :) around the language. What I've taken away from the discussion is that we need to publicize and RFC changes much more. This will make evolution of the language much more transparent and democratic. In addition we are going to be working to put more changes in front of the Puppet Labs Test Pilots to test the usability of changes.

Josh Cooper got a change to allow the agent to cache HTTP connections to the master (PUP-744). This should have some pretty significant performance (and maybe load) improvements since the agent won't need to re-establish an SSL connection for every file.

CFacter is slimming itself down a little. It is going to try to rely only on boost and use boost functionality whenever possible. The first change in this direction was dropping log4cxx in favor of boost's logging functionality.

Hailee has sent out an announcement about the work that she is starting up to get a replacement for puppet doc. The current manifest doc tool has been incredibly hard for us to maintain and has not faired well during changes in ruby version.

I believe that the x64 work for windows is nearing completion. Not quite there yet, but should be very soon.

Data

3.7 Burn up. Our target date is August 27th

We are currently slipping past our target release date.

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