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   Community cookbooks are important to me
   How long have you been using Chef?

   I expect Community cookbooks to "just work"
   I expect the Chef Software maintained cookbooks to "just work"

   I tried to reuse Community cookbooks as part of the evaluation process

   Community cookbooks have positively affected my decision to adopt Chef
   Community cookbooks have negatively affected my decision to adopt Chef

   Community cookbooks have positively affected my perception of Chef
   Community cookbooks have negatively affected my perception of Chef

   Community cookbooks work for my environment (behind my firewall)
   Community cookbooks work for my platform (redhat, debian, windows)

   I make a distinction between "Chef Software maintained cookbooks" and "community cookbooks"

   I pay attention to the Chef Software maintained community cookbooks
   I used to pay attention to the Chef Software maintained community cookbooks

   I am delighted by the quality of the Chef Software maintained community cookbooks
   I am delighted by the quality of the cookbooks maintained by the community

   I prefer to use Chef Software maintained cookbooks, rather than writing my own
   I prefer to write my own cookbooks rather than reuse community cookbooks

   I look to Chef Software maintained cookbook for examples for how to write cookbooks
   I perceive Chef Software maintained cookbooks as "official" cookbooks

   I have had a good experience utilizing community cookbooks
   I have had a bad experience utilizing community cookbooks

   I find Chef easy to use
   I find Chef hard to use

   I have had a good experience contributing to Chef cookbooks
   I have had a bad experience contributing to Chef cookbooks

   I would like to see more Community cookbooks from Chef Software
   I would like to see fewer Community cookbooks from Chef Software
   
   Community cookbooks are overly opinionated

   I use some community cookbooks, but not many. (yum, apt)
   I would find more reusable content on the supermarket useful

   Chef Software should step up their cookbook game
   Chef Software should get out of the cookbook game

   Chef software should supply more reusable content
   Chef software should supply more cookbook examples
   Chef software should supply better cookbook examples

   I would use community cookbooks if they were of higher quality
   I would use community cookbooks if they were less opinionated

   I would prefer to consume resources rather than recipes
   I prefer the "new style" cookbooks (mysql, httpd) to the classic way (postgresql/apache2)

I make a distinction between "Chef Software maintained cookbooks" and "community cookbooks"

I'm not sure how much people actually view these as different things. "I got the cookbook from the site with the domain name that ends with 'chef.io' so it must be a cookbook from Chef Software." I'm not sure how we get this into a survey and get a realistic answer but it's something we need to include.

This is a nuanced discussion that is easy to argue for both sides. I'm very much interested in the results of this survey and worry about making sure we get this to a wide range of Chef users.

What about "I wish there were objective ranking of a cookbook"