16:00:25 <Qalthos> #startmeeting Ansible Network Working Group
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16:00:47 <Qalthos> #topic Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/542
16:01:02 <Qalthos> #link https://github.com/ansible/community/labels/network is where you can always find the latest agenda
16:01:46 <Qalthos> #topic Core Updates
16:04:10 <SeanSullivan[m]> 🎉
16:08:36 <Qalthos> There's a lot of bugfixes going around right now, but I do want to share one exciting thing that has started recently
16:08:42 <Qalthos> #info https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.ios/pull/799 is a (very WIP) PR to run plugin EXAMPLES as unit tests to combat example drift
16:12:13 <Qalthos> It still needs some work, and requires some cleanup on the EXAMPLES strings to make them a little more formally structured than they currently are, but this should hopefully help make sure everything in the module agrees and runs as written
16:15:08 <Qalthos> #info There's also some work going into our GitHub Actions that run the tests on our behalf
16:17:24 <SeanSullivan[m]> love the additional testing and making sure examples are good
16:18:18 <Qalthos> #info [ansible.scm](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.scm), as a newer and smaller collection has some work to enable running the same jobs locally as run in the actions so there's no surprises
16:19:09 <Qalthos> Yeah, I love that this is getting work, and I'm pretty happy with the results so far
16:19:42 <Qalthos> #topic Open Floor
16:19:57 <Qalthos> Anyone want to talk about anything this week?
16:23:47 <Landrash[m]> Nothing to add just want to say as a user of the network stack your doing a great job!
16:25:27 <Landrash[m]> <Qalthos> "It still needs some work, and..." <- In regards to the cleanup of examples. Is there a list one can try to work on?
16:27:22 <Qalthos> It's at the stage where we need to decide on a format to make it machine-digestible without harming the readability of the examples.
16:28:41 <Qalthos> We already have all the information we need, because we prioritized detailed examples with before/after configuration, but we do need to make it uniform and ideally enforce that format with a validator
16:29:47 <Landrash[m]> Feel free to @ me on github or here when its in a state where you need "grunt work" done. Im not much of a programer but that I can probably do 🙃
16:32:18 <Qalthos> I'm pushing for a pre-commit hook to make sure the files are properly formatted for you, but if it comes down to grunt work, I will let you know 😃
16:35:34 <Qalthos> Anyone else want to talk about anything?
16:41:41 <oliverl-21[m]> Just a question general
16:41:52 <oliverl-21[m]> * a question in general
16:42:46 <oliverl-21[m]> Did I understand it correctly. You folks are maintaining the Cisco namespace collections?
16:46:12 <Qalthos> Just asa, ios, iosxr, and nxos, and not exclusively. The others are other groups I'm not familiar with.
16:47:07 <oliverl-21[m]> Interesting, thanks
16:49:57 <Qalthos> Alright then, thanks for coming by!
16:49:59 <Qalthos> #endmeeting