Leverage community cookbooks

[patcon]

Just noticed that you have a bunch of custom forks. Is it worth submitting the customizations upstream and then pointing the Cheffile to the feature branches with the PR's? And then when they're merged in, just use the simple community syntax? (ie cookbook "statsd"). That way, the Cheffile becomes a little like a TODO list, where you're constantly checking in on it to see when you need to push a PR along, or prod the maintainer to peel a new release, so that you can get back to using the official community version :)