Hi everyone,
Daniel is the #2 most active contributor to Ansible, and amazes me
with his ability to seemingly be present in all time zones and being
extraordinarily productive. He is also extremely helpful to everyone
answering questions on IRC, as many of you have probably noticed.
In any event, Ansible is growing to huge volumes of usage, and the
pull requests come in from all directions at once, and Daniel has
agreed to help me out a bit. So, he now has direct commit access so
he can now patch things and help merge requests without waiting on me.
So you may be interacting with him a bit more on pull requests where
it used to be mostly
me.
This is really important for a few reasons. Ansible isn't my day job,
and when I want to take a few nights off, I get buried with pull
requests. Some of our fellow automation tools are corporate and have
5 or 30 or 50 full time employees. We have 0! This project is
seriously huge lately in terms of contributions coming in -- even
exceeding the rates of those
other projects. I think that's because it's generally very easy to
write modules, and hopefully the code is easy enough to dive into --
but regardless, we have very high contribution rates.
Daniel and I are still going to confer on major features, and I'm
still leading things up in terms of roadmaps/releases/etc, so no
change there -- but I'm excited about this and you should be to. It
means Ansible can move forward a lot faster, I'll be able to
concentrate on a few more specific things when I want to, and I think
Daniel has very good judgement.
For everyone else who is wondering, and hasn't contributed yet, you do
not need commit access to contribute to ansible, as you can just send
a pull request through github, though someone with commit access is
needed in order to merge pull requests and get patches into the main
tree. We will probably also take on some other committers over time.
Thanks a huge amount to Daniel for all of his hard work!
--Michael