I was really looking forward to The Racket. I really wanted FirstLook to become to this massive prairie of muckraking bison and harassing gophers and a ghost with a mug of wild turkey next to his shotgun laughing over it all.
Instead I'll have 'project responsibility matrices' bouncing around in the bitter attic of my thoughts for years. Shame.
He left out Cfengine for the same reason everyone who has used Puppet/Chef/Salt/Ansible leaves it out. Its utterly atrocious. Combining global booleans as a weird sort of declarative flow control to make up for the lack of explicit dependencies between objects that everything else has is horrific.
Thousands and thousands of these:
(debian_6|debian_7).(role_postgres|role_postgres_exception)::
And ordering? Nah, just run it 3 times in a row. :\
Instead I'll have 'project responsibility matrices' bouncing around in the bitter attic of my thoughts for years. Shame.