Public Ansible Project Meeting Agenda - Mar 2019

[bcoca]

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(Migrated from a previous agenda)

[bcoca]

Carry overs:

•  Add parent group feature to keyed_groups  ansible#52045: add a toggle to allow unsafe group names so users can migrate from inventory scripts to inventory plugins @AlanCoding
• I would like to discuss this - Implement DarwinHostname and DarwinStrategy for hostname module. ansible#32214 - irc @Akasurde
• Adopt the XDG Base Directory Specification ansible#52354 (comment): Adopt the XDG Base Directory Specification. My IRC name is cedwards. @c-edw
• lower case choices @nitzmahone Public Ansible Project Meeting Agenda - Feb 2019 #436 (comment)

[felixfontein]

• Discussion point: should *_facts modules which don't return ansible_facts (re-)named to *_info? Or something else?

[samdoran]

• Re-write linux cpu hardware report to use lscpu ansible#53064: Add lscpu for gathering CPU information on Linux systems as the preferred data source, falling back to directly parsing /proc/cpu-info

[jamescassell]

• 2.8 CONDITIONAL_BARE_VARS deprecation warning even when value passed is a native bool -- I get a warning on every single task because they all have a conditional that's a bool... I'd assumed that the deprecation warning would only trigger when the value passed was not a native bool. (also, likely related ' [WARNING]: conditional statements should not include jinja2 templating delimiters such as {{ }} or {% %}.' when it's a variable that's been referenced only by name.

[s-hertel]

- [ ] ansible/ansible#51149: Allow module_defaults set in an inner scope to be merged with those set in an outer scope. Also part of a broader conversation, allowing keywords with extend=True (such as environment) to have this behavior generally. If the approach looks acceptable bikeshedding the __clear__ option would be good as it may be interpreted as modifying the module_defaults of the outer scope... (__only__, __quarantine__?)

Using a workaround for the time being, going to revisit after freeze after I've done some performance testing

[abedwardsw]

• ansible/ansible#51466: add support for regex to vars lookup plugin

[felixfontein]

• Now that we decided that we don't want _facts modules which do not return ansible_facts: how should these modules be called? _info? something else?

[bcoca]

Meeting ended Tue Mar 5 20:12:26 2019 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot .
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[gundalow]

• Docs: Read arg_spec documentation from module ansible#45805 Docs: Read arg_spec documentation from module

[jamescassell]

• add support for regex to vars lookup plugin ansible#51466 (comment)
• rename rhsm_repository_release to rhsm_release ansible#53430
• selogin module ansible#53960

[drzraf]

• [Gitlab service module] (New module: Gitlab service ansible#40053) MR, Handles GitLab integration with 30+ external webhooks/services

[Xaroth]

• ansible_parent_role_name/path variables for when a role is being included by another role ansible#46687 ansible_parent_role_name/path variables for when a role is being included by another role

[felixfontein]

• Option parsing: warn if both an option and its alias are specified for a module ansible#53698 specifying both an option and its alias should result in a warning (or even an error)

[ju2wheels]

• git: add explicit submodule_init parameter, add submodule_depth parameter, and cleanup parameter support verification. (#48678) ansible#49000 and
• ansible-pull: Add --module-args to expose all SCM module args and deprecate old argument specific CLI options. (#48678) ansible#50829 to add git-pull and git module changes

[bcoca]

Meeting ended Tue Mar 19 20:03:41 2019 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot .
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[Sajna-Shetty]

• Adding dell ome device_info module ansible#53438 new module request

[jagadeeshnv]

• Added idrac_server_config_profile ansible#53509 new module request

[bcoca]

Meeting ended Thu Mar 21 15:37:12 2019 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot .
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[gundalow]

Ansible 2.8.0 delay

As some of you may have noticed, Ansible-2.8.0-alpha1 has been
delayed. It was scheduled for last week but we have one important
feature that we're still working on. To give it a chance to be
finished up, we've slipped Alpha by two weeks (now due out on
Thursday, next week) and slipped final by one week.

The new schedule there will be:

2019-03-28 Alpha 1 Core freeze
2019-04-04 Beta 1 Feature freeze
2019-04-18 Release Candidate 1
2019-04-25 Release Candidate 2 (if needed)
2019-04-02 Release Candidate 3 (if needed)
2019-05-09 Release

As always the /devel/ docs contain the latest ROADMAP

[felixfontein]

• Option parsing: warn if both an option and its alias are specified for a module ansible#53698: should it announce that this will become an error eventually (concrete version)? anything else needed?

[jamescassell]

IRC: cyberpear

• use ANSIBLE_ prefix on all ansible-defined env vars ansible#54272 use ANSIBLE_ prefix on all ansible-defined env vars
• selogin module ansible#53960 I'd like to have this merged without squashing -- It will be helpful to separate in git history the cleanup of the originally-imported module vs the new features I've added (check_mode and ignore_selinux_state) -- I'd do separate PRs for the features (hence separate commits in git history) but I'd really like to have it merged in time for 2.8.
• openstack: add os module_defaults group ansible#54319 module_defaults group os for OpenStack modules
• replace - fixed combined before and after usage ansible#31452 replace with both before and after -- PR has been pending for a while
• Would a warn module be accepted. It would be like assert or debug, but would output purple text and not stop playbook execution. Current workaround is debug with changed_when: yes, but it gets lost in the noise. -- can ansible CI detect warnings? how? (for integration testing of this possible module)
• standardize connection variable names ansible#51776 (comment) ansible_ssh_password not working in some cases -- can we have an example of the failure? Possible fix?
• standardize TLS connection properties ansible#54315 standardize TLS params

[bcoca]

Meeting ended Tue Mar 26 19:54:57 2019 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot .
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[bcoca]

Meeting ended Thu Mar 28 16:06:15 2019 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot .
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[gundalow]

Agree where Plugin metadata should come from
ansible/ansibullbot#1183 (comment)