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#ansible-community: Ansible Community Meeting
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Meeting started by felixfontein at 18:00:12 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-community/2021-04-14/ansible_community_meeting.2021-04-14-18.00.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539  (felixfontein,
  18:00:12)
  * Agenda: https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539 / Topics:
    https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics
    (felixfontein, 18:00:16)

* Updates  (felixfontein, 18:02:15)
  * No more collections can apply for inclusion in Ansible 4
    (felixfontein, 18:02:19)
  * Deadline for approval of new collections in Ansible 4 is April 26th,
    i.e. in 12 days  (felixfontein, 18:02:19)
  * There's Red Hat summit coming up April 27th, there's bound to be
    Ansible things in it: https://www.redhat.com/en/summit  (dmsimard,
    18:06:27)
  * ansible-4.0.0a4 coming out today.  (abadger1999, 18:07:07)
  * ansible-core 2.11.0 is still on track to ship end of April
    (dmsimard, 18:07:13)
  * likely next ansible-4 prerelease will be ansible-4.0.0beta1 on April
    27th  (abadger1999, 18:07:35)

* Allow non-semantic versioned collections in Ansible  (felixfontein,
  18:10:16)
  * Discussion:
    https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/7
    (felixfontein, 18:10:16)
  * AGREED: the versioning aspect of the netapp collections is ok for
    inclusion with their new versioning system  (felixfontein, 18:18:02)
  * AGREED: We still require semver.  netapp's versioning is considered
    compatible enough that we accept it as semver for our purposes.
    (felixfontein, 18:27:43)

* Remove Python 2.6 requirement  (felixfontein, 18:32:04)
  * Discussion:
    https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/6
    (felixfontein, 18:32:04)
  * Proposal: https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/165
    (felixfontein, 18:32:07)
  * LINK: https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/165 |
    open, created 2021-04-07T16:50:26Z by abadger: RHEL6 went EOL on
    November 30, 2020.  (github-linkbot, 18:32:07)

* What are the implications of maintaining and supporting past major
  releases of the ansible package  (felixfontein, 18:46:22)
  * Discussion:
    https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/1
    (felixfontein, 18:46:25)
  * writeup: https://hackmd.io/plQlGzcFRFGLnPXIeg3cwQ  (felixfontein,
    18:46:28)
  * AGREED: No plan for a LTS maintenance release for the Ansible
    community package for now, anyone from the community can bring the
    topic up again for discussion at a later release and we can revisit
    the topic  (felixfontein, 19:05:45)
  * ACTION: dmsimard to write a summary of the LTS discussion in the
    bullhorn  (dmsimard, 19:06:20)

* open floor  (felixfontein, 19:06:24)

Meeting ended at 19:12:46 UTC.




Action Items
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* dmsimard to write a summary of the LTS discussion in the bullhorn




Action Items, by person
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* dmsimard
  * dmsimard to write a summary of the LTS discussion in the bullhorn
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)




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* dmsimard (48)
* abadger1999 (40)
* tadeboro (27)
* zodbot (18)
* cyberpear (14)
* jillr (14)
* cybette (12)
* samccann (11)
* andersson007_ (8)
* gundalow (8)
* lmodemal (6)
* nitzmahone (5)
* acozine (5)
* dericcrago (5)
* apple4ever (2)
* aminvakil (2)
* github-linkbot (1)
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