Windows Working Group agenda - 2021

[jborean93]

The Windows Working Group is focused on improving Ansible's management of Windows hosts. We meet every week on Tuesdays at 20:00 UTC (see ical)

More information related to the Windows Working Group is available at: https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Windows

Feel free to add your questions to this ticket to be discussed during the upcoming meeting.

After being discussed, raised items are being updated, and after a month resolved items are being hidden from view (but remain accessible).

(migrated from 2020 agenda #517)

[jborean93]

How should win_package handle check mode when the path specified does not exist. Currently it fails like it would if it ran normally but it may have a previous step that copied/downloaded the file. Should we just ignore this error and report a change if possible or is a failure a desired outcome https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.windows/issues/208.

Edit: It was decided the current behaviour is what it should be. The module should act like it would if run in normal mode and it's up to the caller to ensure the playbooks work in check mode by ignoring errors if necessary. The alternative is going to be confusing behaviour as to why things fail/don't fail in certain situations rather than the current cut and dry setup.

[nitzmahone]

NO MEETING SEP 28 DUE TO ANSIBLEFEST

[MKletz]

I'd like to meet and discuss https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.windows/issues/15 if possible

[briantist]

The text in https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Windows needs updating, and that link is where the IRC channel topic points.

UPDATE: @nitzmahone will take an update pass over it

[jborean93]

Talk about https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76256, in particular

• If we agree on enabling UseConsistentIndentation with the proposed settings (4 spaces, indent on first pipeline)
• If we wish to also enable AvoidLongLines and if so how long

UPDATE: @jborean93 will enable rules above with line length at 160, add git config for ignore-rev-file on the final reformatting commit

[MKletz]

hey all sorry for the delays but I'd be interested in discussing https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.windows/issues/15 on Nov 16 if there isn't anything else.

[briantist]

@MKletz sounds good! take note the meeting time is in UTC, so if you're in a location that observes DST, the meeting time may be different than last time you checked/attended. For example for me in US Eastern, it used to be 4pm, now it's 3pm.

[MKletz]

If we're still meeting on 11/23 I'd like to discuss the missing package the CI is looking for on https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.windows/pull/313 it's asking for a missing OMI package after adding the example composite resource to the test files

ERROR: tests/integration/targets/win_dsc/files/xTestCompositeDsc/1.0.0/DSCResources/xTestComposite/xTestComposite.schema.psm1:1:15: ParserError: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Unable to find DSC schema store at /etc/opt/omi/conf/dsc/configuration. Please ensure PS DSC for Linux is installed.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/dsc/getting-started/lnxgettingstarted?view=powershell-7.2

Edit: we skipped the sanity check for this particular file to avoid adding more dependencies to the test container