#ansible-community: Ansible Contributor Summit 2021.03

Meeting started by gundalow at 11:55:36 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Introductions (gundalow, 12:06:09)
    1. People are saying hello (gundalow, 12:06:22)

  2. Ansible Community Team Update (gundalow, 12:19:21)
  3. Steering committee (gundalow, 12:23:21)
    1. ompragash Is introducing the Ansible Community Steering Committee (gundalow, 12:23:46)
    2. This was launched yesterday. (gundalow, 12:24:07)
    3. See the announcement email https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-devel/c/FRbn4qT3Jf0 (gundalow, 12:25:49)
    4. Process for requesting a new collection to be included in the `ansible` package is via https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible-inclusion/discussions (gundalow, 12:27:33)
    5. Public Agenda for the Wednesday Community Meeting: https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539 (there is an `.ics` file for your calendar) (gundalow, 12:30:17)
    6. We will share a link to ompragash's slides (gundalow, 12:37:52)
    7. We will do a blog post on the Steering Committee shortly which will include more information (gundalow, 12:38:20)
    8. The objective is to increase the number of non-Ansible employees in the group (gundalow, 12:39:38)
    9. We will help mentor and train anyone that has interest in being more involved in any part of the Ansible Community (gundalow, 12:41:02)

  4. Stats update - 1 year on, is Collections achieving it's goals? (gundalow, 12:45:13)
    1. gwmngilfen presents a review of the past year (gundalow, 12:45:32)
    2. The stats repo is https://github.com/ansible-community/stats-collections/ (gundalow, 12:50:23)
    3. The list of potential statistics we are interested in, and other questions we have are tracked here https://github.com/ansible-community/stats-collections/issues (gundalow, 12:51:25)
    4. If you are interested in the graphs and details that gwmngilfen is currently presenting, take a look at the more detailed blogs on https://emeraldreverie.org/ (gundalow, 12:54:24)
    5. You can see the stats at https://stats.eng.ansible.com/ (gundalow, 13:02:25)

  5. Ansible 3.0.0: How we got here and what's next (gundalow, 13:02:55)
    1. dmsimard Is giving an update on what's been happening with the `ansible` package versioning (gundalow, 13:03:24)
    2. Blog posts on ansible recent version changes https://www.ansible.com/blog/announcing-the-community-ansible-3.0.0-package & https://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-3.0.0-qa (gundalow, 13:05:26)
    3. Slides that dmsimard is currently presenting http://ansible.github.io/community/decks/3.0.0-community-update.html#/ (had lots of links) (gundalow, 13:07:35)
    4. ansible and ansible-core roadmaps https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ansible_roadmap_index.html (gundalow, 13:09:33)
    5. FYI we are keeping a summary of the discussions at the end of https://hackmd.io/uZDSLOOdS1Kx0xfZVIATmQ (gundalow, 13:23:19)

  6. Execution Environments via Ansible Builder (gundalow, 13:35:53)
  7. How do we improve the experience of contributors and maintainers (gundalow, 14:02:17)
    1. dmsimard is now leading an interactive discussion about how can we improve the experience of contributors and maintainers (ie YOU) (gundalow, 14:03:35)
    2. The notes that dmsimard is presenting are at https://hackmd.io/z0LmOzdBSQ2MkecSIf5gxw?both (you are welcome to edit this) (gundalow, 14:04:45)
    3. Interactive Training Scenario. If you are new to contributing to Ansible it's really worth the 20 minutes to run through the session. It's all in the website so nothing needed on your computer. https://www.katacoda.com/ansible-community/scenarios/fixing-a-bug (gundalow, 14:12:36)

  8. Munch break, back at 15:20 UTC (dmsimard, 14:34:04)
  9. Ansible network collections update (gundalow, 15:21:38)
    1. cidrblock and ganeshrn Are giving an update on using Ansible for managing your Network infrastructure (gundalow, 15:22:16)
    2. 2021 Spring Roadmap https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Network%3A2021-Spring-Roadmap (gundalow, 15:22:45)

  10. Help maintaining the Ubuntu PPA (gundalow, 15:42:26)
    1. dericcrago is giving an update on the Ansible Ubuntu PPA (gundalow, 15:42:43)
    2. Current Test PPA building what I've done for testing so far (not official): https://github.com/dericcrago/ansible.ppa/tree/main/.github/workflows -> https://launchpad.net/~deric.crago (gundalow, 15:56:08)

  11. Docs split (ansible vs ansible-core) (gundalow, 15:56:34)
    1. samccann gives an updated on the various changes regarding having different release train for `ansible` vs `ansible-core` packages and how we've got separate areas for the documentation (gundalow, 15:57:13)
    2. Agenda for the Docs Working Group: https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/579 (gundalow, 16:05:01)

  12. Documentation Survey feedback (gundalow, 16:18:57)
    1. acozine (Ansible Documentation Lead) gives an update on the recent Documentation Survey (gundalow, 16:21:21)
    2. https://pypi.org/project/ansible-base/#history (aminvakil, 16:22:04)
    3. gwmngilfen analysis of the Ansible Documentation Survey https://emeraldreverie.org/2021/02/23/docs-survey-2020-results/ (gundalow, 16:30:16)

  13. Ansible-core 2.11 potential topics (gundalow, 16:43:21)
    1. Sivel talks about the Ansible 2.11 Roadmap (gundalow, 16:43:32)
    2. Ansible-core 2.11 roadmap https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_11.rst (gundalow, 16:43:41)

  14. BREAK (gundalow, 17:09:10)
  15. Community Galaxy update (gundalow, 17:30:12)
    1. nitzmahone and awcrosby give an update on what happening with galaxy.ansible.com (gundalow, 17:30:41)

  16. Documenting Ansible Collections (gundalow, 18:05:12)
    1. samccann talks about the future for how we can better document collections (gundalow, 18:05:41)

  17. Cloud update (gundalow, 18:30:54)
    1. jillr provides an update on the what the Cloud Team has been doing (gundalow, 18:31:16)

  18. Top n-things we don’t have answers to (gundalow, 18:45:21)
    1. abadger1999 leads a discussion around some more difficult discussions (gundalow, 18:45:49)
    2. Thank you everybody (gundalow, 20:02:27)
    3. Join us tomorrow in #ansible-community during the same time for Open Office Hours, Hackathon. (gundalow, 20:02:50)


Meeting ended at 20:02:52 UTC (full logs).

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