#ansible-network: Network Working Group

Meeting summary

1. 1. Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/labels/network (gundalow, 16:07:48)
   
   
2. 2.5 update (gundalow, 16:08:43)
   1. `connection: network_cli` is LIVE. The issues with `authorize: true` (eos & ios) have been resolved (gundalow, 16:09:26)
   2. NO MORE `unable to open shell` (gundalow, 16:09:39)
   3. NO MORE `unable to open shell` even when using `connection: local` (gundalow, 16:09:49)
   4. ACTION: EVERYONE We'd really welcome testing on the devel branch, this is a HUGE change (gundalow, 16:10:10)
   5. Error messages are show in ansible-playbook output: fatal: [vyos01.example.net]: FAILED! => {"msg": "host key mismatch for vyos01.example.net"} (gundalow, 16:11:02)
   6. NOTE: `connection: local` & `provider:` is still needed for eapi & nxapi (gundalow, 16:11:52)
   7. If you set `connection: network_cli` YOU MUST also set `network_os: $platform` (where platform is the three module prefix, e.g. eos, ios, nxos, vyos) (gundalow, 16:14:24)
   8. For general 2.5.0 status please see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/projects/10 (gundalow, 16:17:30)
   9. Note that connection: (eapi, nxapi) are strech goals for 2.5 (that means there is lots of other stuff that needs doing before that, and it might end up in 2.6) (gundalow, 16:18:17)
   10. 2.5 Roadmap is live https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_5.rst (gundalow, 16:19:05)
   11. notes dates in ROADMAP_2_5.rst are FINAL dates, even PRs raised before hand are NOT guaranteed to get in. Sooner the better :) (gundalow, 16:23:17)
   
   
3. Open Floor (gundalow, 16:23:21)

Action items

1. EVERYONE We'd really welcome testing on the devel branch, this is a HUGE change

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