Meeting Log | Ansible Community Working Group | 2024-03-13 19:00:14

Ansible Community Meeting | Ansible Community Working Group | #community:ansible.com

Meeting started by @felixfontein:matrix.org at 2024-03-13 19:00:14

Meeting summary

  1. INFO: Agenda: https://forum.ansible.com/tags/c/project/7/community-wg-nextmtg / Topics: https://forum.ansible.com/tags/c/project/7/community-wg (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:00:23)
  2. INFO: Past meeting logs: https://forum.ansible.com/tags/c/workflow/meetbot/16/community-wg (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:00:27)
  3. TOPIC: Updates (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:00:36)
    1. INFO: Zhenech posted an interesting article on how inventory plugins can pass in templates that are executed by the controller, which can lead to remote code execution on the controller: https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/ (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:07:08)
    2. INFO: On the forum an interesting discussion started on why most modules use the `dict()` syntax instead of dictionary literals for their argument spec definition: https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-do-modules-prefer-dict-constructor-over-dict-literal/4290 (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:08:57)
  4. TOPIC: Removing officially unmaintained collections (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:20:07)
    1. LINK: https://forum.ansible.com/t/removing-officially-unmaintained-collections/4204 (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:20:12)
    2. LINK: https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/pull/214 (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:20:27)
  5. TOPIC: Set up Ansible-Release-Management org in PyPI : for release (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:25:26)
    1. LINK: https://forum.ansible.com/t/set-up-ansible-release-management-org-in-pypi-for-release/4098 (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:25:30)
  6. TOPIC: Open Floor (@felixfontein:matrix.org, 19:32:23)
    1. INFO: we're discussing criteria for including projects on the `docs.ansible.com/ecosystem.html` page and your input would be appreciated (@orandon:ansible.im, 19:34:55)
    2. LINK: https://forum.ansible.com/t/table-stakes-for-including-projects-on-the-ecosystem-page/4341 (@orandon:ansible.im, 19:35:00)


Meeting ended at 2024-03-13 19:59:47

Action items

  1. (none)


People present (lines said)

  1. @felixfontein:matrix.org (50)
  2. @orandon:ansible.im (23)
  3. @mariolenz:matrix.org (7)
  4. @samccann:ansible.im (6)
  5. @zhenech:matrix.org (5)
  6. @remindbot:ansible.im (3)
  7. @acozine:ansible.im (3)
  8. @ansibot:ansible.im (2)
  9. @anwesha:ansible.im (1)


Full logs: full_log.txt

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