Looking for assistance with upkeep and improvements.

[lawrencegripper]

Hi,

When I created the resource I was regularly using DSC however, through a change of job and circumstances (baby on the way, joined a startup), I'm struggling to dedicate time to upkeep and improvements.

I'm looking for community members who are using this resource and DSC more regularly than me, to take the resource forward. If that's you then drop me a note below or info[at]grippers.co.uk and we'll work out how best you can help out.

[ebekker]

Hey, I'm actually kinda in the opposite position wrt/ work -- we're trying to bring more DSC into our regular processes and automation, and we already make heavy use of choco to manage our server deployments (which led me to your DSC resource), so I would be willing to try to help and contribute.

[lawrencegripper]

Thanks for offering to help out, sounds like you'd be a great fit.

Are you happy that we would aim to keep the resource useful on both desktop and server?

One of the uses I still have for the module is building out a dev box with all the tools needed etc.

If you're happy with that I'll sort out repo access for you. Have you used appveyor before? It's used at the moment for the automated build and publish process to the powershellgallery

[ebekker]

Yes, I wouldn't want to do anything that would limit its utility unnecessarily -- actually I kinda misspoke in the sense that we do use it for desktop-ish computers as well -- we're starting to use it to build out our developers' main work VMs which are hosted in the cloud so it's not just a server scenario in our case either.

[ebekker]

I use AV for some of my own OSS projects, for example ACMESharp uses it for all automated builds and even kicking off automated integration testing thanks to the free Community Build service on PowerShell.org.

[MattHodge]

@lawrencegripper I would be interested too, was contemplating making my own class based resource for Choco or PRing this one. Just made a separate DSC resource here: https://github.com/MattHodge/Hubot-DSC-Resource

[lawrencegripper]

Thanks both, @MattHodge would be really happy to accept PRs. @ebekker I've invited you as a collaborator to the repo so you're all set to take it forward and hopefully it continues to be useful to others. Happy to get involved as and when I can, if you need me for anything just mention me in an issue and I'll keep an eye out for the notifications.

[javydekoning]

@lawrencegripper I created a few PR's, and would love to do some code clean-up to adhere to PSScriptAnalyzer rules and setup additional Pester tests. Let me know if and how I can get involved.

[lawrencegripper]

Massive thanks to @ebekker and @javydekoning for the help - loads of progress over the last few months which is great to see! Closing this issue off for now.