While it may seem a bit cliched, just wanted to say thank you all for a great year!
This year I was not only able to start a company around Ansible but I was also able to hire some really great engineers to work with and helping things go forward in even more directions -- and hopefully help free people a little bit from fighting with all the computer things they'd rather not be fighting with :)
This is all thanks to everyone who has been sharing Ansible with others at work and conferences and blogs and meetups and happy hours (please keep this up!), contributing to the project via pull requests, ideas, and testing, helping other users here, on IRC, twitter, and elsewhere -- and otherwise being a great part of things.
Everybody here as we know has been very busy in ansible land -- together, we've put out 5 major releases this year (plus some dot releases -- bringing the total to 13!) and started a sixth major release, all the while also releasing a pretty cool product on top of Ansible in AWX that I hope people have had a chance to try out.
As many of you know, version numbers don't really have significance to Ansible, but a lot of great things came out since that 1.0 just after the first of the year -- including check mode, streamlining variables and conditionals (yay!), accelerated mode, roles (double yay!), pre/post tasks, and Galaxy and a HUUUUUGE amount of modules and untold numbers of module improvements and upgrades. We started about with around 60 modules at the start of the year and now have 173 which means a module came in about every 3 days (gulp!!!), and have about 120 different people contributing code each month and almost 500 all told (not counting things not yet merged!).
As I mentioned earlier, at least currently Ansible is now in the Top 10 for forked and starred Python projects on GitHub, so thanks for putting up with our gasping for air under this tremendous tsunami of awesome contributions, because it's surprising us in the best of ways too.
Really interested to see what happens in 2014*. Thanks again for all your help, interest, and support! Please keep surprising us!**
* = I personally am hoping for modules to auto-deliver pizza via quadcopter drones on successful production upgrades.
** = ideally with modules for controlling aforementioned robots.