Bullhorn #105 - HackMD

# Bullhorn #105 ###### tags: `bullhorn` ## Published 2023-06-12 20:00 UTC (no further changes accepted) https://mailchi.mp/redhat/the-bullhorn-105 *This week in Ansible Community* *Issue #105, 2023-06-11 ([Past Issues](https://us19.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=56d874e027110e35dea0e03c1&id=d6635f5420))* Welcome to [The Bullhorn](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/News#the-bullhorn), our newsletter for the Ansible Community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you're welcome to chat with us in the [Ansible Social room on Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#social:ansible.com), and mention [`newsbot`](https://matrix.to/#/@newsbot:ansible.im) to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue! ## KEY DATES ⏱️ [cybette](https://matrix.to/#/@cybette:ansible.im) said > * 2023-06-13: [DaWGs meeting](https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/678), 15:00 UTC > * 2023-06-14: [Community WG meeting](https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/679), 18:00 UTC (propose topics [here](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues)) > * 2023-06-15: [Bullhorn #106 content deadline](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/News#the-bullhorn), 18:00 UTC > * 2023-06-20: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.14.7 and 2.15.1 > * 2023-06-22: [ETA for Ansible 7.7.0 release](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_7.html) > * 2023-06-22: [ETA for Ansible 8.1.0 release](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_8.html) ## GENERAL NEWS UPDATES 🔈️ [cybette](https://matrix.to/#/@cybette:ansible.im) shared > ### Ansible Community Day - slides and recordings > > Thanks to everyone who attended [Ansible Community Day](https://hackmd.io/@ansible-community/ACD2023-Boston) - in person or online! We have gathered some of the slides and made them available [here](https://ansible.github.io/community/decks/community-day-2023.05/). We'll update you as more are uploaded. > > I've also received the audio recording from the event, and will splice them with the live stream recordings and upload them to the [Ansible Community youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/ansiblecommunity) - please subscribe to be notified when the videos are available! [mariolenz](https://matrix.to/#/@mariolenz:matrix.org) said > The planned release date for Ansible 7.7.0 and 8.1.0 has been changed to [June 22](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/239#issuecomment-1581863963). [Gwmngilfen](https://matrix.to/#/@gwmngilfen:ansible.im) contributed > ### Ansible Project Mission Statement - have your say! > > As part of our [efforts to strengthen the community](https://ansible.github.io/community/posts/ansible_community_strategy_2023.html) this year, it seemed right to make sure that the aims of the project - as a whole - are clearly communicated. > > We've been around a while, and while automation is clearly central, we have a variety of statements like ["a radically simple IT automation system"](https://github.com/ansible/ansible), ["Automation for everyone"](https://www.ansible.com/), or ["open-source automation that is simple, flexible, and powerful"](https://docs.ansible.com/). We called out "fragmentation" in the community strategy, and this is a great example of it in action - we're not being consistent in our message. > > So, we thought it might be time to ask you all - [**What does Ansible mean to you?**](https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/D8V9XXR). Give us your thoughts! We'll use the data to inform the work on making this consistent, and we'll update you on the results later in the summer. ## PROJECT UPDATES 🛠️ ### DevTools [↗](https://github.com/ansible/vscode-ansible) ⛏️ Projects to make it easier to write and test Ansible Content. Includes [VScode extension](https://github.com/ansible/vscode-ansible), [language server](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-language-server), [ansible-lint](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-lint), [molecule](https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule), [ansible-navigator](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-navigator) and potentially other development goodies. To see what's planned, and how you can help checkout the [foundation-devtools project board](https://github.com/orgs/ansible/projects/86/views/4) [tima](https://matrix.to/#/@tappnel:matrix.org) contributed > The Ansible team announced at AnsibleFest and Ansible Community Day last month that Molecule will be released as a developer preview on its way to being a fully supported part of the Ansible platform. In order to achieve this, Molecule will need to be streamlined and refocused as a test runner for functional testing of Ansible playbooks and roles using Ansible itself. This will require a number of breaking changes to happen before releasing “Molecule 6” in order to do all of this. You can read about the changes [here](https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule/milestone/35) and we welcome your questions and feedback on their rollout. ## COLLECTION UPDATES 🪄 [abuzachis](https://matrix.to/#/@aevelina:ansible.im) contributed > [amazon.aws 6.1.0](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/tree/6.1.0) has been released with some new features, several bugfixes, and deprecated features (see [changelog for details](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/blob/6.1.0/CHANGELOG.rst#v6-1-0)). [andersson007_](https://matrix.to/#/@andersson007_:matrix.org) shared > The [community.postgresql](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/postgresql) collection version [3.0.0](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst) has been released! [andersson007_](https://matrix.to/#/@andersson007_:matrix.org) said > The [community.postgresql](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/postgresql) collection versions [1.7.10](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/blob/stable-1/CHANGELOG.rst) and [2.4.2](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst) have been released! [Mandar Kulkarni](https://matrix.to/#/@mandkulk:matrix.org) shared > [amazon.aws 5.5.1](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/tree/5.5.1) has been released with several bugfixes ([see changelog for details](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/blob/5.5.1/CHANGELOG.rst#v5-5-1)). [mariolenz](https://matrix.to/#/@mariolenz:matrix.org) shared > It looks like the [netapp.elementsw](https://github.com/ansible-collections/netapp.elementsw) collection is effectively unmaintained. According to the current [community guidelines for collections](https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#unmaintained-collections), we consider removing it in a future version of the Ansible community package. Please see [Unmaintained collection: netapp.elementsw](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/235) for more information or to announce that you're interested in taking over the maintenance of (a fork of) `netapp.elementsw`. > > At least one month after this announcement appears here and in the [collection's issue tracker](https://github.com/ansible-collections/netapp.elementsw/issues/12), the Ansible Community Steering Committee will vote on whether this collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed, or whether it will be kept. If it will be removed, this will happen earliest in Ansible 10. Please note that you can still manually install the collection with `ansible-galaxy collection install netapp.elementsw` even when it has been removed from Ansible. ## HELP WANTED 🙏 [Don Naro](https://matrix.to/#/@orandon:ansible.im) shared > The Ansible community team is looking for help with Jinja templates behind the HTML landing pages on "[docs.ansible.com](https://docs.ansible.com/)". If you've got Jinja skills or want to get involved and learn, check out [issues to simplify HTML](https://github.com/orgs/ansible-community/projects/3/views/1?layout=board) on the writers board and send us a PR. Cheers! [andersson007_](https://matrix.to/#/@andersson007_:matrix.org) said > The [new collection inclusion requests](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible-inclusion/discussions/categories/new-collection-reviews) are waiting for your [reviews](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible-inclusion#review-process). Please help the community extend the package! [Don Naro](https://matrix.to/#/@orandon:ansible.im) contributed > Hopefully you've been finding the new layout "[docs.ansible.com](https://docs.ansible.com/)" to be helpful. We've redesigned it to focus on [user journeys](https://github.com/ansible/docsite/blob/main/data/journeys/docsite-journeys.md) so that users find what they need from Ansible docs more efficiently. There is still lots to do and we'd love to hear from you! Do you have ideas about new user journeys? Do you see anything missing from the new docsite? Are there things you'd just like to change? Send a PR or open an issue in the [ansible/docsite](https://github.com/ansible/docsite) repo and help us make it even better. ## PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 🗳️ [mariolenz](https://matrix.to/#/@mariolenz:matrix.org) contributed > As mentioned in [The Bullhorn #101](https://mailchi.mp/redhat/the-bullhorn-101), we consider `gluster.gluster` an effectively unmaintained collection. Therefore, we've opened a community / steering committee [vote](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/discussions/241) on removing it from the Ansible 10 community package. ## COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS 📅 [cybette](https://matrix.to/#/@cybette:ansible.im) said > Several upcoming Ansible meetups! Check out the details in the links: > * June 15 - [Minneapolis](https://www.meetup.com/ansible-minneapolis/events/293506456) - Event Driven Ansible & Ansible Lightspeed - AnsibleFest/Summit 2023 Recap > * June 17 - [Benelux](https://www.meetup.com/ansible-benelux/events/293214195) - Ansible AAP Meetup > * June 20 - [Boulder](https://www.meetup.com/ansible-boulder/events/293738526) - Boulder Ansible Meetup: T/ACO > * June 21 - [Denver](https://www.meetup.com/ansible-denver/events/293746025) - Denver Ansible Meetup- Wynkoop Brewing Company > * June 22 - [Atlanta](https://www.meetup.com/ansible-atlanta/events/293866549) - Working With Ansible Inventories ## THAT'S ALL FOR NOW! Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please ask in [#social:ansible.com](https://matrix.to/#/#social:ansible.com)! See you next time!