#ansible-meeting: Ansible Core IRC meeting

Meeting summary

1. 1. Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/labels/core (gundalow, 19:02:46)
   
   
2. standardize connection vars to be `user` and `password` #51757 (gundalow, 19:04:34)
   1. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51757 (gundalow, 19:04:39)
   2. IIRC they're kept in the order spec'd in config, and "more specific" is preferred over generic. So "old form" should be lower in precedence IMO (gundalow, 19:08:24)
   3. `ansible_user` and `ansible_password` were what was chosen for 2.0 as standard (gundalow, 19:10:53)
   4. AGREED: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51757#issuecomment-460769276 (gundalow, 19:23:36)
   
   
3. Mitogen (gundalow, 19:24:20)
   1. ACTION: 1) adding a new verb named "execute_module" (gundalow, 20:02:32)
   2. ACTION: 2) adding support to short-circuit execution to defer the module execution to the connection plugin (gundalow, 20:02:43)
   3. ACTION: 3) adding the mitogen connection plugin and any bits required to get it working properly with ansible-connection (gundalow, 20:02:53)
   4. ACTION: 4) proposal for `execute_module()` changes only. (gundalow, 20:17:05)
   
   
4. ansible/ansible#42528 -- New 'forks' directive, per-play, per-block, per-task (gundalow, 20:18:05)
   1. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42528 (gundalow, 20:18:31)
   2. If this is accepted we will need docs. (gundalow, 20:25:25)
   3. Could test it via `runme.sh` to run a Playbook and count the number of forks found in the debug logs (gundalow, 20:25:48)
   
   
5. Add the "probe" filter to dig into an array or a hash #50706 (gundalow, 20:28:38)
   1. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/50706 (gundalow, 20:28:45)
   2. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35992 (cyberpear, 20:35:45)
   3. http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/2.10/api/#undefined-types (agaffney, 20:39:23)
   4. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/51768 [WIP] Custom jinja Undefined class (gundalow, 20:51:30)

Action items

1. 1) adding a new verb named "execute_module"
2. 2) adding support to short-circuit execution to defer the module execution to the connection plugin
3. 3) adding the mitogen connection plugin and any bits required to get it working properly with ansible-connection
4. 4) proposal for `execute_module()` changes only.

People present (lines said)

1. gundalow (94)
2. jimi|ansible (52)
3. dw (49)
4. nitzmahone (49)
5. dag (47)
6. bcoca (29)
7. agaffney (19)
8. cyberpear (19)
9. zodbot (14)
10. sivel (11)
11. jtanner (10)
12. maxamillion (6)
13. sdoran (4)
14. alongchamps (2)
15. shertel (2)
16. felixfontein (1)
17. jborean93 (1)
18. abadger1999 (1)
19. tima (0)