#ansible-community: Community Working Group

Meeting summary

1. versioning and releasing community.general and community.network (felixfontein, 18:05:45)
   1. collections should be released from release branches see https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539#issuecomment-640034934 for details (samccann, 18:08:49)
   2. open questions https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539#issuecomment-640040115 (samccann, 18:09:04)
   
   
2. deprecation cycle for community.general/community.network (felixfontein, 18:11:04)
   1. collections should be released from release branches see https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539#issuecomment-640034934 for details (abadger1999, 18:11:53)
   2. open questions https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/539#issuecomment-640040115 (abadger1999, 18:11:59)
   3. original ansible/ansible deprecation was 4 versions, which was about a year or so (samccann, 18:14:11)
   4. that has stretched to close to 2 years now, since the releases have slowed down. (samccann, 18:14:42)
   5. whatever is decided, we need clear docs on how to write changelog/fragments wrt `breaking_changes` (gundalow, 18:30:42)
   6. AGREED: the deprecation cycle should be at least two major versions. maintainers can decide to choose a longer one, but not a shorter one. (felixfontein, 18:33:01)
   7. AGREED: mapping for old deprecation version numbers (from ansible): 2.11, 2.12 -> 2.0.0, and 2.13, 2.14 -> 3.0.0. old version should be kept as a comment (felixfontein, 18:47:43)
   
   
3. changelogs (felixfontein, 18:48:56)
   1. AGREED: a) we have one changelog per major verion, and b) fragments are removed after a version is released (contents are in changelog.yaml) (felixfontein, 19:05:09)
   2. AGREED: version 0.2.0 to be released next, a couple of days after ansible-base 2.10 beta is released. with changelog and correct version_added and deprecation versions. version after that will be 1.0.0. (felixfontein, 19:18:32)
   3. AGREED: will be released directly from master, i.e. no release branch, and no backporting until 1.0.0 is out (felixfontein, 19:18:38)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. felixfontein (130)
2. abadger1999 (42)
3. samccann (31)
4. andersson007_ (23)
5. cyberpear (16)
6. gundalow (12)
7. zodbot (7)
8. bdodd (0)