Cookbook Governance... though I kinda hate that word

State of the Union•Supermarket

•Namespace squatting

•Rapidly-evolving testing ecosystem

Discussion Topics•Namespacing

•Maintainer Responsibilities

•Quality Metrics

•How and Where to Codify Things?

ArchLinux•AUR versus “community”

•Point system to move from AUR to community

•(Or TU sponsorship)

•Trusted Users (TU)

•Abandonment/disown procedure

•https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines

Perl (CPAN)•Integrated pass/fail reports

•No namespacing

•Reasonably stable packages

•Some guidance: http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_maintain_module