#ansible-community: Ansible Community Meeting

Meeting summary

1. Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539#issuecomment-755239495 (felixfontein, 19:00:34)
   
2. Updates (felixfontein, 19:00:53)
   1. Ansible 2.10.5 has been released (felixfontein, 19:00:54)
   2. community.google, community.hashi_vault, community.kubevirt and cisco.nso have been added to Ansible 2.10.5, they contain migrated content from community.general and community.network. Coming up next is community.fortios. (felixfontein, 19:00:54)
   3. community.general 2.0.0 will be dependency free, and community.network 2.0.0 will only depend on ansible.netcommon once community.fortios is done. (felixfontein, 19:00:57)
   4. The Bullhorn 17 has been released: https://mailchi.mp/redhat/the-bullhorn-17 (felixfontein, 19:01:00)
   5. very happy to welcome ompragash to the Ansible Community Engineering Team (gundalow, 19:06:48)
   
   
3. inclusion of inspur.sm in Ansible 3.0.0 (felixfontein, 19:11:09)
   1. https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible-inclusion/discussions/8 (dmsimard, 19:11:52)
   2. We are using https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible-inclusion/discussions to track requests for inclusion in `ansible` package (gundalow, 19:11:59)
   
   
4. collection checklist template https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/issues/140 (felixfontein, 19:21:40)
   1. andersson007_ prepared a checklist for the collection requirements in https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/issues/140 (felixfontein, 19:22:11)
   2. the main document: https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/collection_requirements.rst (felixfontein, 19:30:16)
   3. AGREED: add `Collections MUST adhere to [semantic versioning](https://semver.org/).` as the first paragraph in https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/collection_requirements.rst#versioning-and-deprecation (felixfontein, 19:33:35)
   4. https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/146 contains the changes to the requirements document we decide on today (felixfontein, 19:35:58)
   5. https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/146 | open, created 2021-01-06T19:35:38Z by felixfontein: Extend collection requirements (github-linkbot, 19:35:58)
   
   
5. collection requirements (felixfontein, 19:37:34)
   1. summary of the problem: https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539#issuecomment-750301681 (felixfontein, 19:37:50)
   2. https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/146#issuecomment-755591187 (felixfontein, 19:50:14)
   3. AGREED: `The `ansible` package MUST NOT depend on collections not shipped in the package` as the first sentence (felixfontein, 19:55:59)
   4. AGREED: change second sentence to `If you plan to split up your collection, the new collection must be approved for inclusion before the smaller collections replace the larger in ansible.` (felixfontein, 19:58:10)
   5. AGREED: add https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/146#issuecomment-755591187 at the end of https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/79f33f9f227fbdf59fa9641dc1a9c42d66c2e0f1/collection_requirements.rst#galaxyyml ? (felixfontein, 20:01:17)
   6. https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/146 contains both changes (felixfontein, 20:01:33)
   7. AGREED: merge https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/146 (felixfontein, 20:04:47)
   8. AGREED: in both the checklist and collection requirements, replace the part on >=1.0.0 with `Collection dependencies must have a lower bound on the version which is at least 1.0.0` (felixfontein, 20:22:14)
   9. AGREED: replace `- [ ] collection dependencies must have a lower bound on the version which is at least 1.0.0` in the checklist by `- [ ] collection dependencies must have a lower bound on the version which is at least 1.0.0, and are all part of the `ansible` package` (felixfontein, 20:26:24)
   10. https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/146) | open, created 2021-01-06T19:35:38Z by felixfontein: Extend collection requirements (github-linkbot, 20:29:08)
   11. AGREED: we accept the checklist (everything until exluding `Removed from the list (if anybody disagrees, please tell us):` and the lines below) (felixfontein, 20:29:43)
   12. I've updated https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/146 (felixfontein, 20:29:58)
   
   
6. starting the collection review process (felixfontein, 20:34:19)
   
7. open floor (felixfontein, 20:43:05)

Action items

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