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Document Cookbooks and Recipes

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Forks
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Description

The documentation needs a beginner's guide to writing cookbooks.

The cookbook guide probably contains:

  1. What is a cookbook? (Conceptual)
  2. How to use cookbooks from Supermarket (procedural)
  3. How to write a cookbook (Tutorial)
  4. Common Cookbook Patterns (Reference)
  5. So you want to update a cookbook (Guide)

The recipe guide probably contains:

  1. What is a recipe? (Conceptual)
  2. How to write a recipe (Tutorial)
  3. Common Recipes or patterns (Reference)

Product

  • Chef Automate
  • Chef Habitat
  • Chef Infra Client
  • Chef Infra Server
  • Chef InSpec
  • Other________________

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No files, tests, or documentation entry points are identified in the issue, so first locate the Chef Infra Client documentation structure and existing cookbook and recipe pages. Done means adding the requested conceptual, procedural, tutorial, reference, and guide content for cookbooks and recipes.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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