Dead project?

[nick-george]

Looking at the code frequency on this puppet module, it appears that the project is dead. Any chance Elastic could hand over control of the project to someone who might be willing/able to maintain it? (Vox Pupuli comes to mind)

[jarpy]

Maybe a question for you, @nkammah?

[nkammah]

@nick-george you are right that we have not been able to invest time to prioritize work on the puppet-logstash and I don't anticipate this to change in the near future. I was not aware of Vox Pupuli but this sounds like a very reasonable approach. Do you happen to know what such a transition would look like ?

[nick-george]

I'm afraid I don't, but it might be worth reaching out to Vox Pupuli (apparently a team of people, not an individual) to see if they'd have any interest in sponsoring the project.

[Fabian1976]

Or at least publish a new version on puppetforge with a stdlib > 6 dependency. Everyone is forking this repo now and only update that dependency.

[shaneshort]

I'd like to echo the above sentiment, is there anything we can do to assist getting this module shifted over to VP?

[alexjfisher]

@nkammah Vox Pupuli would be happy to help look after this project.

Have you seen https://voxpupuli.org/docs/migrate_module ?

If you would like to proceed with just this module or potentially some of your other puppet modules too, let me know and I'll add you to the Vox Pupuli org so that you can perform the migration.

[nkammah]

@alexjfisher i apologize for the radio silence - we've been discussing the situation internally and I will be able to provide an update soon, I'd expect within 7 days. Thanks!

[Rocco83]

@nkammah it's actually my fault, given #403 (comment) i was reaching in chat the admin team, as you were asking how to do it. I crossed the "contact the admin" but not a way to do it. Vox Populi team is definitely efficient!
Hope that this module can get life back soon.

[Rocco83]

@nkammah news?

[nkammah]

We’ve discussed it internally and have decided to officially stop development and will be releasing the project into the community - we're looking into our next steps. My apologies for not providing an update within the 7 days I had mentioned originally.

[nkammah]

We're starting the process to hand-off the 4 puppet modules to Vox Pupuli.

[nkammah]

The 4 Elastic puppet modules have been handed-off to Vox Pupuli - many thanks for adopting the modules.

[pingram3030]

Great, this repo was thrown over the fence and it looks like there's no one at the helm.

How do we go about contributing, in regards to merging code and fixing up breakages, to try and get this repo up to snuff?

[smortex]

@pingram3030 the module has been donated to voxpupuli.

First sted would be to use modulesync to setup the repository in a way GitHub does CI, and ensure the test pass. Then submitting PR should be smooth… Anyone can step in (I am not a user of logstash so only did it for ElasticSearch and Kibana).

See https://github.com/voxpupuli/modulesync_config/ for updating the module with modulesync. Feel free to reach #voxpupuli on IRC for chatting / help and advises 😉

[bastelfreak]

I did a bit of cleanup and an initial modulesync in #408. it doesn't look too bad, someone just needs to cleanup the acceptance tests and probably manage the whole spec_helper_acceptance via modulesync as well.