This week in Ansible Community
Issue #166, 2024-12-13 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
Get started with first contribution
andersson007_ shared
Are you interested in making your first ever contribution to an open-source project or a first contribution specifically to Ansible? You can do both at once! If that sounds exciting, read the How to submit your first pull request to Ansible step-by-step forum post. Any feedback is welcome!
Project updates 
Ansible Community Package 
The Ansible package includes ansible-core and is a batteries-included package that provides a curated set of Ansible collections. See the Ansible roadmaps for future release plans.
Ansible 12 roadmap
mariolenz shared
There is now a vote open on the Ansible 12 roadmap.
DevTools
Projects to make it easier to write and test Ansible Content. The ansible-dev-tools metapackage, which includes VS Code extension, ansible-creator, ansible-lint, molecule, ansible-navigator, ansible-dev-environment and more! To see what’s planned, and how you can help, checkout the foundation-devtools project board
DevTools plans 2025
samccann contributed
Ansible DevTools team shared hi-level focus areas for developer tooling in 2025 with the community. Read up to find ways we can work together!
Collection updates 
Certified collections
samccann contributed
Certified collections updated this week:
Help wanted 
Consolidating docs redirects
Oranod contributed
The Ansible community team is planning to consolidate redirects for Ansible documentation from versions 2.3 to 2.10 as well as for links to some specific modules and plugins docs that existed before collections. This effort will result in a change to the user experience but we’re doing it in the name of progress.
We’re asking our community members to review all the details in this forum post: Consolidating redirects on docs.ansible.com. You can find specific examples about the change as well as the PR that consolidates the redirects. We’ve also done a lot of testing to make sure the consolidated redirect rules work as expected and don’t result in a load of 404s. You can find the test results linked in that forum post as well. Thanks!
Community updates 
Maintainers
Maintainers help to run the community!
andersson007_ said
As maintainers of collections (and other projects), we should take proactive steps to ensure their long-term health and success. For more details, check out the dedicated forum post.
Community events and meetups 
Ansible Contributor summit
Oranod shared
Ansible Contributor Summit is coming to Cfgmgmtcamp 2025! We’ll be back with a full day working session on Wednesday, Feb 5th. The agenda is in the Contributor Summit event page on the forum. We hope to see you in either in person or online.
Oranod shared
Cfgmgmtcamp schedule
Exciting news for everyone heading to Configuration Management Camp next February in Ghent! The Cfgmgmtcamp 2025 schedule is available!! We’ve got two Ansible tracks lined up with interesting talks from some great speakers.
You can register for Cfgmgmtcamp online. It’s free, fun, and a great opportunity to learn, share, and engage with fellow IaC technologists right after FOSDEM.
You can also grab some Cfgmgmtcamp gear from the online shop.
Other events and releases
Use the Ansible Forum to see other events and releases.
Join the Ansible community
Looking for ways to get involved? See how can I help for some ideas!
You can find easy issues in collections and other projects for code or documentation contributions.
That’s all for now!
Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please ask in #social:ansible.com! See you next time!