#ansible-community: Ansible Community Meeting

Meeting summary

1. agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539 (felixfontein, 18:06:16)
   
2. updates (felixfontein, 18:07:12)
   1. andersson007_ and felixfontein started creating new collections from material from c.g/c.n: community.postgresql, community.routeros, community.docker (felixfontein, 18:07:44)
   2. https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1083; | open, created 2020-10-13T09:07:38Z by aminvakil: archive: remove path folder itself when remove paramater is true [affects_2.10,bug,community_review,files,integration,module,plugins,tests] (github-linkbot, 18:14:25)
   
   
3. should https://github.com/felixfontein/ansible-basic-sphinx-ext become a part of antsibull, or if not gh.com/ansible-community? (felixfontein, 18:15:51)
   1. Will merge ansible-basic-sphinx-ext into antsibull (+1:6, 0:1, -1:0) (abadger1999, 18:30:55)
   2. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/compare/devel...ylmrx:devel < here's a change i would like to submit an PR for. is it interesting enough of a feature ? my recursion is probably dirty, should I make the inner function (_graph_group_dot_recurse) outside of its parent, or is it ok ? (legreffier, 18:34:20)
   
   
4. should we merge https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1191 or not - i.e. is removing collection dependencies a breaking change that has to wait for a major release, or not? (felixfontein, 18:39:36)
   1. https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1191 | open, created 2020-10-28T11:57:21Z by patchback[bot]: [PR #1157/20f470cc backport][stable-1] Remove ansible.posix dependency [affects_2.10,bug,has_issue,module,module_utils,needs_revision,needs_triage,new_contributor,plugins,system,tests,unit] (github-linkbot, 18:39:37)
   2. AGREED: remove the dependency on ansible.posix for the next minor community.general release, and teach users that they shouldn't rely on indirect dependencies (5 x +1, 2 x 0, 0 x -1) (felixfontein, 19:00:21)
   3. acozine to update https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/collections_using.html, possibly other pages with "don't rely on indirect dependencies" (acozine, 19:00:27)
   
   
5. should we reschedule the meeting to another time (or even day)? (felixfontein, 19:01:03)
   1. https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1083 | open, created 2020-10-13T09:07:38Z by aminvakil: archive: remove path folder itself when remove paramater is true [affects_2.10,bug,community_review,files,integration,module,plugins,tests] (github-linkbot, 19:07:18)
   
   
6. should we remove `authors` from botmeta? https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539#issuecomment-706947663 (felixfontein, 19:09:37)
   1. AGREED: remove author information from BOTMETA (i.e. deduplicate) (felixfontein, 19:16:45)
   2. ACTION: andersson007 remove `author:` from BOTMETA (felixfontein, 19:17:06)
   
   
7. open floor (felixfontein, 19:25:11)
   1. Ansible Hacktoberfest 2020 https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ansible-hacktoberfest-2020 (cybette, 19:25:28)
   2. Ansible Contributor Summit Day 1 playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FmYCf7ocrYoVe5nO52II9fbO4Y_hq8_ (cybette, 19:26:00)
   3. Galaxy team are looking at `ansible-galaxy collection install` timeouts. Appears someone is hammering the galaxy.ansible.com on the hour every hour (gundalow, 19:40:43)
   4. https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull/pull/195 | open, created 2020-09-30T18:02:11Z by webknjaz: Add a workflow building nightlies (github-linkbot, 19:43:16)

Action items

1. andersson007 remove `author:` from BOTMETA

People present (lines said)

1. felixfontein (146)
2. abadger1999 (63)
3. cyberpear (35)
4. acozine (26)
5. gundalow (24)
6. andersson007_ (19)
7. cybette (17)
8. zodbot (13)
9. geerlingguy (10)
10. lmodemal (6)
11. legreffier (5)
12. github-linkbot (4)
13. webknjaz (3)
14. bcoca (2)
15. aminvakil (1)