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#ansible-meeting: Ansible Core Public IRC Meeting
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Meeting started by Shrews at 19:00:50 UTC. The full logs are available
at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-meeting/2020-11-10/ansible_core_public_irc_meeting.2020-11-10-19.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Agenda: https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/570  (Shrews,
  19:01:05)
* Add filter dict  (Shrews, 19:02:24)
  * LINK: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72413   (Shrews,
    19:02:30)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/complex_data_manipulation.html#create-dictionary-from-list
    (bcoca, 19:13:42)
  * AGREED: rejecting 72413 for inclusion in core, propose pushing to a
    collection  (Shrews, 19:21:11)

* hosts: reference parent groups from children (makes copy/pastes easy)
  (Shrews, 19:21:22)
  * zip filters can mostly do same  (bcoca, 19:21:30)
  * AGREED: suggest looking into a custom inventory plugin and research
    existing plugins  (Shrews, 19:27:53)

* Empty value of --limit should raise an error (or at least be no-op)
  (Shrews, 19:28:01)
  * AGREED: empty `limit` is valid and likely relied on by others.
    Suggest external validation for empty vars supplied to it.  (Shrews,
    19:32:58)

* Playbooks: Inventory variables should override playbook lever
  variables by default  (Shrews, 19:33:12)
  * LINK: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63668   (Shrews,
    19:33:20)
  * ansible_limit var is avaiable to play  (bcoca, 19:33:21)
  * one reason for this long established var precedence is to bootstrap
    the common user  (Shrews, 19:40:09)

* Allow custom success/failure message (should work with no_log: true)
  (Shrews, 19:40:17)

* Roles: A variable should not be passed to a role unless specified in a
  “spec” file  (Shrews, 19:49:03)

* update on internal `plugin_utils` discussion  (Shrews, 19:53:43)

* Open floor  (Shrews, 19:57:48)

Meeting ended at 20:00:26 UTC.




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* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)




People Present (lines said)
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* bcoca (88)
* Stas55 (50)
* Shrews (49)
* nitzmahone (39)
* sivel (19)
* zodbot (7)
* felixfontein (5)
* mattclay (2)
* sdoran (2)




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