News for Maintainers

Announcements of changes impacting Ansible collection contributors and maintainers.

Current open issues and related discussions.

This repository is created in accordance with the Community decision as a replacement for Issue 45 to track changes that Ansible collection maintainers should be aware of.

If you are a collection maintainer, please subscribe to this repository using the Watch button in the upper right corner of the GitHub web interface. If you do not want to get notifications about related discussions, subscribe to issues only.

The news are made via issues - one per announcement. Issues must not be used for anything else than announcements.

Discussions can be used to discuss announcements. Do not use discussions for announcements.

Examples of news posted via this repository

• Updates made to ansible-test to detect new issues.
• New OS distros available for testing.
• Changes in test containers.
• Calls for CI test matrix updates to prevent failing tests.
• Changes/reminders about freeze and version bump dates.
• News and required actions related to libraries' deprecation.
• Changes to ansibullbot workflow.
• Pull request review days and contributor summit announcements.
• Changes in the changelog format.
• Collection documentation markup changes.

Guidelines

• Please do not create issues to ask questions. Join us on Matrix or IRC or create a Discussion and link it to the issue instead.
• Please avoid unnecessary discussions in issues, use the Discussions feature as described above. Every comment posted will notify a lot of folks! You can add reactions to an issue/a comment instead for feedback that does not annoy everyone.
• If you reference an issue in this repository in a PR, avoid writing Fixes, Closes, Resolves, or any other closing keywords before it so that the issue is not closed when the PR is merged.