# Ansible Contributor Summit 2021.06
###### tags: `contributor summit`

**Date:** Tuesday, June 8, 2021
**Time:** 07:00 - 15:00 UTC (to accommodate more participants in the APAC region this time) - [check your local time here](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Ansible+Contributor+Summit+2021.06&iso=20210608T07)
**Register:** [Eventbrite registration](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ansible-contributor-summit-202106-registration-152686374055?aff=hackmd)
**Location:** [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/brd-fgtr-bjv)
**IRC:** #ansible-community on Libera.Chat https://web.libera.chat/#ansible-community
**Matrix Chat:** #ansible-community:libera.chat

**Code of Conduct:** https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html

## I'd like to speak to someone now

If this is your first Contributor Summit or if you have questions feel free to speak to us

**IRC**
Channel: #ansible-community on [Libera.Chat](https://libera.chat/)
Direct: gundalow, cybette

**Email**
John "gundalow" Barker, Engineering Manager at Ansible, [e-mail]
Carol "cybette" Chen, Principal Community Architect, [e-mail]

## What is Contributor Summit

This is your opportunity to meet with many members of the Ansible Development team and fellow contributors to help shape the future of Ansible

1. Read the details and register on [Eventbrite](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ansible-contributor-summit-202106-registration-152686374055?aff=hackmd)
2. Put your name at the bottom of this HackMD note under "Attendees"
3. Look at the "Potential Topics" section and add your thoughts, vote by doing +YOURNAME (i.e. +gundalow), previous years we did +1, though that's difficult to track

## Agenda (times in UTC)

* **07:00** (20 mins cybette) Welcome and introductions
* **07:20** (20 mins gundalow) General Updates
* **07:40** (10 mins eqrx) ansible-core 2.12 Core update
* ***07:50** 10 mins break*
* **08:00** (20 mins Rohit Thakur & Ganesh) Ansible Network team [update](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Network%3A2021-Till-Dec-Roadmap)
* **08:20** (20 mins Abhijeet) Ansible Cloud team update
* ***08:40** 20 mins break*
* **09:00** (20 mins gwmngilfen) Matrix & bridge
* **09:20** (20 mins gundalow) Where does the Community want to be in 12, 18 months
* **09:40** (20 mins gundalow) Papercuts
* ***10:00** [MUNCH](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/munch) HOUR* 🥣🥗🍕🍲
* **11:00** (20 mins ompragash) Update on Steering Committee & Instruqt training platform
* **11:20** (20 mins gundalow) Ansible Community Docsite
* **11:40** (10 mins cybette) D&I update
* ***11:50** 10 mins break*
* **12:00** (20 mins gwmngilfen & gundalow) Community Galaxy and GalaxyNG
* **12:20** (20 mins Alicia & Sandra) DaWGs (aka Documentation Working Group) update
* ***12:40** 20 mins break*
* **13:00** (20 mins shanemcd & Matt Jones) Execution Environments (EE) with the community package
* **13:20** (5-10 mins each) [Lightning Talks](https://hackmd.io/@ansible-community/contrib-summit-202106#Lightning-Talks)
* **14:00** Open floor, wrap up, etc.

## Potential Topics

Please add details and `$nick` if you think this is something we should cover, detail is good.
Vote by doing +YOURNAME (i.e. +gundalow), previous years we did +1, though that's difficult to track.

* Welcome (Carol)
* General updates (gundalow)
* Ansible 3.0 & 4.0
* Ansible 5.0
* PPA status table
* [Ansible release timeline](https://ansible.github.io/community/decks/contrib-summit-2021.03/3.0.0-community-update.html#/16)
* Community Galaxy and GalaxyNG (is anyone free for this given TZ)
* ansible-core 2.12 Core update (@eqrx, 10 minutes)
* Ansible Network Roadmap planning session (Trishna)
* Ansible Cloud team update (Abhijeet Kasurde)
* Matrix (& bridge) (Greg)
* Where does the Community want to be in 12, 18 months
* FIXME Add a few seed ideas here (pull from gDoc)
* Papercuts (gundalow)
* Question: What are the small/little annoyances that you regularly face
* `ansible-galaxy collection init`
* ansible-test requiring specific dir structure (+Jorge-Rodriguez)
* Update on Steering Committee (ompragash)
* Photos, GitHubID, LiberaChat ID
* Future: Possible intro video with all committee members talking about Ansible community/project direction?
* community-topics
* docs.ansible.com/community (gundalow)
* The Aim
* The possible solutions
* D&I update (cybette)
* DaWGs (aka Documentation Working Group) update (Alica & Sandra)
* Execution Environments (EE) with the community package (shanemcd & Matt Jones) - anytime after 8am Eastern

## Lightning Talks

* ~~ARA (dms) - Later in the day~~
* ~~ansible-lint (zbr)~~
* contributor experiences from contributors
* Ansible Navigator (Future Contributor Summit)
* ~~future of ansible molecule? (zbr)~~
* lint/molecule/ara ask us anything (later in the day)

# Increasing Discussion
* Sent out (copy/paste) agenda into Reddit before hand
* Email attendees and ask them to think in detail before this
* IRC Meeting topic

# Meeting notes
* The day started with introductions from staff and community

## General updates
* Ansible 4.0.0 in May
* Ansible 5.0.0 in November
* [Ansible release timeline](https://ansible.github.io/community/decks/contrib-summit-2021.03/3.0.0-community-update.html#/16)
* Libera.chat, Matrix soon. More on that from Greg
* 94 collections in Ansible. https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible-inclusion/discussions

PPA Status

| version | `18.04` | `20.04` | `20.10` | `21.04` |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| **`2.8.20`** | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
| **`2.9.22`** | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
| **`2.10.7`** | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| **`3.4.0`** | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| **`4.0.0`** | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |

See [ppa status](https://github.com/ansible-community/ppa/issues/1)

## ansible-core 2.12 update

FIXME Link to slides
Minumum Python versions
Library clean up

## Ansible Network Team Update
by Rohit Thakur

* [Network team members and areas of responsibilities](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Network)
* [Roadmap update](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Network%3A2021-Till-Dec-Roadmap)
* [Networking Project board](https://github.com/orgs/ansible-collections/projects/3)

## Ansible Cloud Team Update
by Abhijeet Kasurde

FIXME Link to slides

## Matrix and Bridges
by Greg Sutcliffe

* We moved from Freenode to Libera.Chat
* IRC is **not** going away
* [Matrix bridges](https://matrix.org/bridges) with IRC and offer some additional features
* Element is a [client](https://matrix.org/clients) for Matrix
* Context for IRC & Matrix discussion https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/19
* Notes from OpenStack https://review.opendev.org/c/zuul/zuul/+/793669/1/doc/source/reference/developer/specs/community-matrix.rst
* More details https://hackmd.io/@ansible-community/matrix-bridge

## Papercuts + Where does the Community want to be in 12, 18 months
by Gundalow

Jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1sWPBTJ6CvGVx8H737Rnb12GshMRcIfa9mAVu2jsSXnE/viewer?f=0

## Steering Committee update
by ompragash

* Introduced the steering committee 3 months ago at the first Contributor Summit of the year
* https://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-community-steering-committee
* Focusing on collections for now, to extend later as needed
* Community topics repository https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/

## Training platform update
by ompragash

* Previously https://www.katacoda.com/ansible-community/ ([feedback](https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/discussions/119))
* New platform https://instruqt.com
* New repo for Instruqt scenarios https://github.com/ansible-community/instruqt-scenarios
* Discussion link https://github.com/ansible-community/instruqt-scenarios/discussions/3

## Community Docs
by gundalow

* Focus on improving collections contributor/maintainer experience
* https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/
* On https://docs.ansible.com/community or possibly somewhere else
* Quick start https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/create_pr_quick_start_guide.rst
* Splitting out from the main doc site, things to consider: search will not cover things split out (as it's currently a docs search and not a site search)

## Diversity and Inclusion update
by cybette

* [Working group wiki](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Diversity)
* [Meeting agenda](https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/577)
* [Project board](https://github.com/ansible/community/projects/2)
* [Inclusive language blog post](https://opensource.com/article/21/5/inclusive-language-ansible)

## Community Galaxy and GalaxyNG
by gundalow and gwmngilfen

* Background: https://www.reddit.com/r/ansible/comments/na4end/ansible_community_galaxy_next_steps_help_needed/
* Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2V7ZVK8
* More detailed feedback: https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/17 or the reddit post

## DaWGs (Documentation working group
by acozine and samccann)

* Ansible docs https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/
* Ansible Core docs https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/
* Breadcrumps
* All modules index page https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/index_module.html
* Scenario guides
* Ansible Sphinx Theme https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-ansible-theme/ (already used by ansible-lint and molecule)
* People can help review open docs PRs
* Meeting/agenda: https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/579

## Execution Environments
by shanemcd

FIXME Link to slides

Ansible Navigator TUI https://github.com/ansible/ansible-navigator

## AUA (ask us anything) - ARA/Ansible-Lint/Molecule
by dmsimard and zbr

* https://ara.recordsansible.org/
* https://ansible-lint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
* https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

## Open Floor

* If you are using role argument specs in collections, or are trying them out, please provide feedback for the following PRs:
* [Generate role documentation](https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull/pull/272) - this PR creates role documentation from role argument specs for the docsite, similarly to plugin and module documentation.
* [Support roles with argument spec](https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-changelog/pull/55) - this PR allows antsibull-changelog to auto-detect new roles (it only considers the main entrypoint) in collections.

# Attendees

Please put your name (irc nick) if you are attending

* Carol Chen (cybette)
* Alex Sowitzki (eqrx)
* Amin Vakil (aminvakil)
* Felix Fontein (felixfontein)
* Tadej Borovšak (tadeboro)
* Brian Scholer (briantist)
* Sviatoslav Sydorenko (webknjaz)
* Andrei Klychkov (andersson007_)
* Ompragash (ompragash)
* David Moreau-Simard (dmsimard)
* Martin Schurz (schurzi)
* Martin Krizek (mkrizek)
* Sorin Sbarnea (zbr)
* Abhijeet Kasurde (akasurde)
* Ganesh Nalawade (ganeshrn)
* Greg Sutcliffe (gwmngilfen)
* Jorge Rodriguez (Jorge-Rodriguez)
* Trishna Guha (trishna)
* Ashwini Mhatre(ashwini)
* Rohit Thakur(rohitthakur2590)
* Sagar Paul (sagpaul)
* Priyam Sahoo (priyams)
* Sumit Jaiswal (justjais)
* Cruz Pitre (digigrate)
* Sagi Shnaidman (sshnaidm)
* Pierre-Louis Bonicoli (pilou)
* Guillermo Buritica T (gburiticato)
* Alina Buzachis (abuzachis)
* Artur Martins (arturmartins)