#ansible-community: Ansible Community Meeting

Meeting summary

1. Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539 (felixfontein, 18:00:05)
   1. Agenda: https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539 / Topics: https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics (felixfontein, 18:00:08)
   
   
2. Updates (felixfontein, 18:00:50)
   1. Happy New Year 2022 :) (felixfontein, 18:00:57)
   2. We are excited to announce that briantist has joined the Ansible Steering Committee. Brian has been a very active community member for several years. He has contributed to the project as a developer, reviewer, collection maintainer, documentation contributor, he helped other contributors and users on IRC / Matrix and GitHub as well as the steering committee to make right decisions. (gundalow, 18:02:35)
   3. thanks to briantist, PRs in the community.docker repo now have a docs build and docs diff (felixfontein, 18:05:55)
   4. We had 24 issues of The Bullhorn, the Ansible Community newsletter, last year. Subscribe via https://us19.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=56d874e027110e35dea0e03c1&id=d6635f5420 (gundalow, 18:07:02)
   
   
3. Active voting topics (felixfontein, 18:09:02)
   1. https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aactive-vote will show all active votes (felixfontein, 18:09:41)
   2. opinions wanted on semantic markup proposal - https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/53 (samccann, 18:15:38)
   
   
4. distutils LooseVersion etc. replacement (felixfontein, 18:33:55)
   1. Original PR: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3936 (felixfontein, 18:34:09)
   2. https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3936 | closed, created 2021-12-22T22:03:13Z by felixfontein: Prepare for distutils.version being removed in Python 3.12 [bug,module,has_issue,filter,inventory,module_utils,database,plugins,cloud,files,gitlab,monitoring,net_tools,os,packaging,source_control,system,notification,identity,web_infrastructure,backport-3,backport-4]  (github-linkbot, 18:34:10)
   3. Unintended consequences (bug report): https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/issues/267 (felixfontein, 18:34:17)
   4. Changelog PR: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3979 (felixfontein, 18:34:52)
   
   
5. open floor (felixfontein, 18:53:03)
   1. https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3984 (felixfontein, 18:59:51)
   2. https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3984 | open, created 2022-01-05T18:58:20Z by felixfontein: Use vendored copy of distutils.version [backport-3,backport-4]  (github-linkbot, 18:59:51)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. felixfontein (84)
2. andersson007_ (22)
3. samccann (21)
4. briantist (14)
5. tadeboro (13)
6. zodbot (11)
7. gundalow (7)
8. acozine (4)
9. dericcrago (3)
10. remindbot[m] (3)
11. bcoca (2)
12. github-linkbot (2)