most folks puppet users

modules?
- most don't use it?
- issues with modules: there might be duplicate package definitions
repositories:
- to be created one by upstream
- "puppet module install", since 2.7.12, fetches modules from forge.puppetlabs.com (aka puppetforge)

Debian's puppet git tree:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=mirror/dsa-puppet.git;a=summary


interesting alternative: ansible (not as mature as puppet, but faster to get started)
  http://ansible.github.com/
ansible has
 * small, (ideally) idempotent task files
 * playbooks, that map hosts to a number of tasks
 * deployment server logs into clients using ssh, no client-side daemon needed
 * (though pull mode also possible)
 * new host bringup not as simple as puppet, combine with FAI or similar
 * is written in python

Idea: Debian as a platform could offer better support for configuration management by integrating some elements directly into existing packages, providing the means to automate their configuration. Those elements could be:
  - Puppet modules
  - Augeas lenses (this is very useful for performing automatic configuration tasks when there's no configuration management server)
  - Chef recipes
  - etc.
Instead of having to hunt for those pieces through different / external places, it would be very useful if certain packages shipped them by default.