# boxen/our-boxen

Copy me for your team.

Repository: https://github.com/boxen/our-boxen
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/our-boxen
Homepage: https://github.com/boxen/our-boxen/
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-04-09T02:49:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5083, "days_push": 3068, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2569, forks 852 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:01.314368+00:00)

## What it is
A template repository for teams to fork and customize Boxen, a Puppet-based framework for automating macOS workstation setup. It bootstraps a machine with development tools and team-standard configuration via a single script.

## Use cases
- automate mac development machine setup for a new team member
- provision developer workstations with puppet
- standardize team macbook configuration
- bootstrap a mac with xcode, homebrew, and dev tools
- manage company-wide osx laptop configuration as code

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy macOS fleet already provisioned with Boxen
- you need Puppet-based declarative macOS setup and are comfortable with archived tooling

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new macOS provisioning project - the project was archived in 2018
- you need cross-platform (Linux/Windows) machine provisioning
- you want a modern alternative like Nix, Ansible, or MDM-based tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: abandoned
- function: configuration-management, infrastructure-as-code, deployment, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, apple-ecosystem
- platform: cli, ruby
- tags: puppet, macos-provisioning, workstation-setup, team-onboarding, archived, devops, automation, macos

## Member repositories
- boxen/our-boxen (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:01.314368+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:23:20.278658+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/boxen/our-boxen (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:01.314368+00:00, sha 15382a9e908c)
  - homepage: https://github.com/boxen/our-boxen/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:05:39.204381+00:00, sha e0df1b63ec07)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.