Geppetto is aimed at developing tools to simplify the process of authoring and consuming Puppet
modules and manifests.

The project's foundation is a model of the Puppet DSL, along with parsers, validators, and formatters that
translate between a generated module or manifest and its editable representation. 
Corresponding IDE tooling will generate and validate modules and manifests directly from editors, as well as
streamline module publication/consumption to/from the Puppet Forge (http://forge.puppetlabs.com/). 
Tooling will be packaged for both command line interaction, i.e., an enhanced version of the current
Puppet Module Tool (http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-module-tool), and IDE plug-ins.
Editors will provide syntax highlighting, content assistance, error tracing/debugging and similar
capabilities, as appropriate.

The project has three near-term objectives: (1) flatten the learning curve associated with using the
Puppet DSL to create manifests, (2) support Puppet best practices for working with manifests in the form of
modules, and (3) encourage sharing of modules within the community using the Puppet Forge.
A longer-term objective will be to make it easier for a wider range of tools to interoperate with
Puppet by using Geppetto's modeling foundation as a means of interchange; potential synergies with the
new p(0) project (http://github.com/lak/pzero) will be explored for this purpose.

The Geppetto IDE tooling can be downloaded as a stand-alone product
from http://cloudsmith.github.com/geppetto/download.html
or installed into an existing Eclipse IDE from
http://download.cloudsmith.com/geppetto/updates.

For FAQ, and more information visit the Geppetto site http://cloudsmith.github.com/geppetto/