Thanks! On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 8:32:32 PM UTC-4, Matt Davis wrote: > > This thread hits on a number of discussions that have been happening for > years- rather than trying to recap them here, I wrote a blog post about it: > http://blog.rolpdog.com/2020/03/why-no-ansible-controller-for-windows.html > > On another note: it bothers me that there's perception that Ansible is a > "Red Hat only" project. It's true that those of us that are paid by Red Hat > to work on Ansible have to pick and choose carefully where we spend our > time, and that the concerns of paying customers (including keeping the > underlying codebase reasonably stable) often take priority over shiny > things. At the end of the day, Red Hat can't possibly capital-S-support > everything, and we have to be really careful about large contributions or > projects that are potentially destabilizing (especially when they involve > things we currently have no way to test). > > One of the major purposes of the move to collections is to get us out of > the community's way in this regard. Rather than applying overly-harsh > filters to all contributions in the name of capital-S-supportability and > releasing at a relatively slow cadence, community-owned collections will be > able to apply whatever quality rules they like, apply whatever > compatibility policies they like, and release on whatever schedule they > like, while still having a way to be part of a "batteries included" > community Ansible distribution. For the collections that are > capital-S-supported by Red Hat, the requirements for getting contributions > accepted will still remain pretty high, but anyone is free to release their > own version of that content themselves with whatever changes they like, > while still enjoying the stability of the core Ansible engine itself. > > We're also working to further plugin-ify and democratize even more of the > "guts" of the Ansible engine in future releases. That doesn't directly > address this case, but a number of others around first-class target support > for many things that aren't Windows or POSIX, and will also probably knock > down a few more of the barriers to a hypothetical native-Windows Ansible. > > -Matt Davis (@nitzmahone) > >
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