On Mar 6, 2015, at 9:06 AM, John Bollinger <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 8:42:34 PM UTC-6, Adrien Thebo wrote:
> To me, following the principle of least astonishment indicates that caching 
> be disabled by default; it'll work correctly for new users and has no hidden 
> gotchas. When people want to do performance tuning they're probably fairly 
> sophisticated users and can deal with weird cache invalidation issues; since 
> they're opting into this feature they should be prepared to deal with the 
> ramifications.
> 
> +1
> 
> Perhaps it would make sense for PE to be configured differently out of the 
> box, but between the two options presented, Puppet's built-in default should 
> be no caching.


This feels quite a bit like consensus to me, I've filed 
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-4094 to track the change which should 
hit both in Puppet 3.8 and the Puppet 4 nightlies.

Thank you Owen for kicking off the discussion, and thanks everyone for your 
thoughtful replies.


Eric Sorenson - [email protected] 
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