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Deprecate and finally remove iDRAC modules #199

Closed mariolenz closed 1 year ago

mariolenz commented 1 year ago

Summary

192 gave me the idea to propose the deprecation and finally the removal of the iDRAC modules. There's the dellemc.openmanage collection which is maintained and also part of the community package.

They have some iDRAC related modules, too. It looks like they don't really have drop-in replacements for idrac_redfish_command, idrac_redfish_config and idrac_redfish_info but we could ask them if they would agree to move those modules to their collection in the long run. Or, maybe, this isn't even necessary because they already provide better alternatives.

What do you think?

felixfontein commented 1 year ago

The idrac_redfish_command, idrac_redfish_config, and idrac_redfish_info modules landed in community.general because the dellemc.openmanage collection did not want to have them. Other idrac modules were directly moved to dellemc.openmanage during the initial migration (search https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/config/ansible_builtin_runtime.yml for idrac). Also these modules depend on the redfish module utils in community.general.

Also note that the redfish modules in community.general are actively maintained. One possibility would be moving them to a new collection, say community.redfish, but that would depend on whether someone would want to maintain that collection. (Maintaining a collection is more work than maintaining some modules in c.g.)

felixfontein commented 1 year ago

CC @mraineri @tomasg2012 @xmadsen @renxulei @rajeevkallur @bhavya06 @mikemoerk @TSKushal

mariolenz commented 1 year ago

Damn. And I thought this such a good idea :-(

felixfontein commented 1 year ago

Moving the idrac modules to a separate collection could be a good thing. But it needs someone / a group of folks who want to maintain that.

mraineri commented 1 year ago

I agree with Felix; I wish we could rely on that other community to push the iDRAC functionality, but the scope and semantics are a bit different. I also don't have the bandwidth to maintain a collection and appreciate the fact that I can leverage the support of the community general collection.

mariolenz commented 1 year ago

Since this isn't the brilliant idea I thought it was, it's probably best to close this.