Re: [ansible-project] OS support contribution guidelines

[James Cassell]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, at 4:03 PM, Nick Venenga wrote:
> What host operating systems does Ansible accept PRs for? I got hit with
> a hard no here
> https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65381#issuecomment-600250171
> that sounds like anything Windows related it out of the question. I see
> various vague references to reserving the right to only support Linux
> but then I see other places referencing MacOS and *BSD. I tried to find
> development guidelines to no avail. Is there an official policy or does
> it just depend on maintainers mood?
>

I was disappointed to see that decision. I know lots of folks would like to run ansible on a Windows controller and it's unfortunate that RH is forcing it to be done in a fork, but as they say [1], "it's not a democracy," and they're pushing it to be more of a RH-only project. (IIUC, it's no longer possible to add non-namespaced modules or plugins, and best you can do is community.general.my_module.)


V/r,
James Cassell


[1] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-meeting/2020-03-17/ansible_core_public_irc_meeting_https:github.comansiblecommunityissues528.2020-03-17-19.01.log.html#l-60