The Bullhorn

A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #30, 2021-07-15 (Past Issues)

Welcome to the Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible developer community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, please reach out to us at the-bullhorn@redhat.com, or comment on this GitHub issue.

KEY DATES

2021-07-19: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.11.3 and Ansible-Base 2.10.12 release
2021-07-20: ETA for Ansible 4.3.0 release
2021-07-21: community IRC meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)
2021-07-22: D&I working group meeting, 19:00 UTC
2021-07-27: Bullhorn #31 content deadline
2021-07-28: community IRC meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)

ANTSIBULL-CHANGELOG RELEASE

The changelog generator antsibull-changelog 0.12.0 has been released. The main news is that it now supports other projects in addition to ansible-core and Ansible collections. In particular, it can now generate its own changelog :tada:

NEW/UPDATED COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS

Ansible Community VMware Collection - community.vmware 1.12.0 has been released. See the release notes here: full changelog.
PostgreSQL collection for Ansible - community.postgresql 1.4.0 has been released.

ANNOUNCING NEW COLLECTION MAINTAINERS

We are happy to announce Markus Bergholz as a new maintainer of the Community AWS Collection.

LOOKING FOR COLLECTION MAINTAINERS/CONTRIBUTORS

Two more collections - community.aws and community.vmware - are looking for new maintainers and contributors! If you are interested, please refer to the corresponding pinned issues linked via the collection names.

PROPOSAL: ANSIBLE AND MATRIX

Please check out Greg Sutcliffe's detailed blog post about where we'd like to see the Ansible Community go next with chat, and share your comments/feedback here.

CONTENT FROM THE ANSIBLE COMMUNITY

Nicolas Leiva wrote about "How to consistently run temporary workloads on AWS and save money", the first of four blog posts on creating reproducible Linux environment in AWS with Ansible.

THE ANSIBLE TEAM IS HIRING

Red Hat is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work on Ansible. Please check the job description in the link and apply!

ANSIBLE CONTRIBUTOR SUMMIT AND SURVEY

Ansible Contributor Summit 2021.06 was held last month (June 8, 2021), and we have put together a Contributor Survey. Please take a few minutes to fill it in, whether you have attended all/part/none of the event.

Feedback is really important to us so we can keep on improving the Contributor Experience for our wonderful Ansible Community. If you missed the event or want to recap parts from it, the logs, presentations, and recordings are available in the Ansible Community wiki.

The next Contributor Summit will be on September 28th and October 1st, alongside AnsibleFest. The first day (Tuesday, 28/9) is aimed at new contributors and people who want to understand what is involved in contributing. Day two (Friday, 1/10) will contain the usual interactive discussions with more technical details. If you'd like to help with the planning (especially with the content for day 1), please see this issue.

FEEDBACK

Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please send us an email at the-bullhorn@redhat.com.