#ansible-community: Ansible Community Meeting

Meeting summary

1. Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539 (felixfontein, 19:00:17)
   
2. Updates (felixfontein, 19:01:28)
   1. Ansible 3.0.0 beta 1 has been released (felixfontein, 19:01:37)
   2. Several new collections have been included in Ansible 3: t_systems_mms.icinga_director, sensu.sensu_go, community.sops, inspur.sm, dellemc.openmanage, and ansible.utils! (felixfontein, 19:01:37)
   3. https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/151), | open, created 2021-01-25T12:48:11Z by Ompragash: New Policy Regarding Python Compatibility for Collections (github-linkbot, 19:05:18)
   4. https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/152), | open, created 2021-01-27T20:17:20Z by dmsimard: Improve clarity of the documentation requirements (github-linkbot, 19:05:19)
   5. ansible PPAs are progressing nicely. ETA: end of the week for bionic, focal, and groovy (abadger1999, 19:06:42)
   
   
3. Ansible 4.0.0 schedule (felixfontein, 19:10:51)
   1. https://hackmd.io/y7BBcweNR3aRVLuMbKkDxw (abadger1999, 19:10:52)
   2. https://hackmd.io/y7BBcweNR3aRVLuMbKkDxw (felixfontein, 19:10:59)
   3. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73465 (abadger1999, 19:10:59)
   4. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73465 | open, created 2021-02-03T18:57:04Z by abadger: [WIP] Ansible 4 roadmap [WIP,affects_2.11,docs,needs_triage,support:core] (github-linkbot, 19:11:00)
   5. Roadmap: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73465 (felixfontein, 19:11:15)
   6. AGREED: We approved the Ansible-4.0 schedule: PR for docs.a.c: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73465 (document with background info: https://hackmd.io/y7BBcweNR3aRVLuMbKkDxw) (felixfontein, 19:25:39)
   
   
4. community.network: who wants to take over maintenance / releasing? (felixfontein, 19:26:04)
   1. ACTION: dmsimard to talk about community.network maintenance at the next network working group meeting (dmsimard, 19:31:35)
   
   
5. Proposal for Python version support for collections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/151) (felixfontein, 19:35:00)
   1. https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/151) | open, created 2021-01-25T12:48:11Z by Ompragash: New Policy Regarding Python Compatibility for Collections (github-linkbot, 19:35:01)
   2. AGREED: Collections do not need to support Python 2.6 and Python 3.5 if they chose not to. This must be well documented though (for every plugin/module, and in the collection README). (many +1, one -1) (felixfontein, 20:06:19)
   3. AGREED: Add 'We recommend that collections try to support 2.6 and 3.5 as well. Not supporting Python 2.6 means that you are dropping support for RHEL6, which has extended support until 2024. Not supporting Python 3.5 means that Python 2.7 has to be installed on Ubuntu Xenial (16.04), and that you have to support Python 2.7. Also note that dropping support for a Python version for an (felixfontein, 20:21:47)
   4. AGREED: Change the 'recommend' to 'SHOULD' in the above, i.e. 'Collections SHOULD try to support 2.6 and 3.5 as well.' (1 x -1, 1 x +0, 4 x +1) (felixfontein, 20:32:21)
   
   
6. Require that collection releases are tagged in the git repo (felixfontein, 20:34:05)
   1. AGREED: 'Every collection must have a public SCM repository, and releases of the collection must be tagged in this repository.' (felixfontein, 20:52:18)
   
   
7. open floor (felixfontein, 20:52:23)

Action items

1. dmsimard to talk about community.network maintenance at the next network working group meeting

Action items, by person

1. dmsimard
   1. dmsimard to talk about community.network maintenance at the next network working group meeting

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