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Chef's Cookbook for installing Redmine
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Installing the Redmine Backlogs plugin #12

Open btomasini opened 11 years ago

btomasini commented 11 years ago

Juanje,

I have done some work on a recipe for the Redmine Backlogs Plugin here: https://github.com/btomasini/cookbook-redmine/tree/backlogs. Right now it only supports the source installation of Redmine.

Do you think that installation of plugins belongs in this cookbook, or in a separate cookbook? If you think it belongs in this cookbook, and you are interested, I can work on finishing up the work and submitting a pull request.

Thanks,

Ben

pbchase commented 11 years ago

This is a good question. I too would like my redmine plugins to be installed via chef. I was unsure how to go about it as I am very new to chef.

If there were an example chef cookbook for redmine plugins I'd be happy to make a few, but I would need them to integrate with redmine as installed via this cookbook. My guess is that would require sharing a few common attribute values, but little more.

Philip

juanje commented 11 years ago

I truly sorry for the late answer :-( I got some issues with my Internet provider...

Anyways, this is really a good question and I was worndering myself what is the right answer a while ago. Actually, @btomasini, I had seen your code weeks ago and I was thinking about talking with you.

I had two ideas and I'm not sure what is the best one:

Actually, both could be combined...

I'd prefer not to add the plugins to this cookbook because could overcomplicate the cookbook and it could be a botleneck for the plugins to be added.

The reason I'm not sure about the LWRP is that (at least the plugins I know) not all the plugins need the same steps to be installed. But, I think it would be nice to hace one. It would simplify a lot the creation of cookbooks for plugins.

I don't know, this is kind of brainstorming. What do you think about guys?

pbchase commented 11 years ago

I really think the plugins should be separate from the redmine cookbook. Modularity is better.

As to what a plugin needs to install, I've been testing RM plugins these past two weeks and wrote 4 plugin install scripts in bash. There is a standard mantra they all require, but some need more. Some need lots more.

An LWRP or a template could make it easy to do the simple ones. A template would be useful as a starting point for the complicated ones.

btomasini commented 11 years ago

Thanks for the responses.

The main advantages of having them in one cookbook are (1) a "one stop shop" for redmine and popular plugins, and (2) a simpler development model when the plugin requires changes to the main redmine recipes.

Neither of these reasons are terribly compelling. I am fine separating out the backlogs plugin into a separate cookbook project.