> - What other ecosystems are you familiar with and how do they compare (favorably or otherwise) to Java? Opscode and many, many community cookbooks are a plea

> - What other ecosystems are you familiar with and how do they compare (favorably or otherwise) to Java? Opscode and many, many community cookbooks are a pleasant surprise there. Most cookbooks I've been working with have adhered to semantic versioning except for when a mistake occured. Backports of fixes are kinda accepted, but you have to do the work yourself. I'd guess this is because someone writing a cookbook tends to be closer to operations and knows how useful a small, safe bugfix is.