fork modules not included in ansible to github.com/ansible

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Hi

I really like to have an overview of all modules, which are not included in ansible of any reason.

My suggestion is to handle it like Jenkins CI (https://github.com/Jenkinsci) and have a fork of the modules on https://github.com/ansible. So the community see all modules and the maintainer of the modules can send pull requests and so forth.

Any comments?

Regards
René

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So what we’re likely going to be doing in the mid-term future is likely make a way of managing roles. (Roles may even have dependencies, TBD), and you’ll be able to browse them.

However, I strongly dislike the idea of having a fork of everything on github, as that means everyone has to play “go fetch” and we can’t delegate maintenance.

Now modules are different. With modules, we’re following a “batteries included” approach, and the modules that don’t get included are sometimes interesting, and we are encouraging everyone who doesn’t get something included that a large number of people could still be interested in to host that on github, and include a list of those things in the documentation. However, I strongly believe the way to keep modules refresh and up to date is keep them part of the main project.

Nobody likes managing 200 different forks and issue queues and it makes packaging rather un-fun too.