(This is somewhat awkwardly on both lists; is everyone ok moving it to  
-dev?)

On Nov 18, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Ceri Storey wrote:
> [snipped description of state-based change control]
> I suppose what I'm asking, is firstly, is anyone else doing anything
> like this themselves? I imagine someone must be. If so, are they using
> wrapper scripts (as we do) or some other mechanism?

As others have said, yes, this is a common problem.  You might look at  
ControlTier as a way to solve some of these problems more easily,  
rather than writing your own scripts to do the work.  However...

>
> Secondly, if my company were to sponsor development of such a feature
> (ie: let me develop it at work), what would we have to do to get it
> into the mainline release of puppet? I fully imagine that it'll need a
> bit of discussion first, as of course, it's a bit of a shift in how
> puppet models resources.


I'm keenly interested in getting some of these features added to  
Puppet.  I've got some ideas for it, but I haven't attempted to  
implement them because I wanted to wait until I had clear use cases  
with a couple of customers.

If this is something you would be able to add, I would gladly work  
with you to finalize the design and then get it committed to the  
core.  This is definitely on the roadmap of things I want to do.  It  
might actually dovetail nicely with the not-quite-infinitely-long  
discussion about syntax changes that has been happening on the -dev  
list.

I'll try to kick it off today by emailing my initial (early) ideas to  
the list.

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