I just noticed that cloud.common requires ansible-core < 2.19 since version 5.0.0, released on June 25th. We’ve been including this version in Ansible 12 pre-releases since 12.0.0a7. (Previous versions didn’t explicitly require ansible-core < 2.19.)
There has been an attempt to fix this, but last activity on the PR has been on June 13. There has been no activity by maintainers in the issues for ansible-core 2.19 compatibility and a similar one since then. (@mariolenz asked two weeks ago whether there are news: no reaction.)
This collection is a dependency of vmware.vmware_rest, so if we remove cloud.common now, we also have to remove vmware.vmware_rest. It definitely would be more preferable if this gets fixed instead of having to remove these two collections. Or is this a problem that doesn’t matter too much? (I don’t use either of the collections so I don’t know what it affects.)
@SteeringCommittee @release-managers What do you think?