# What is ansible-collections/.github repo used for?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-ansible-collections-github-repo-used-for/5791>\
**Category:** Project Discussions\
**Tags:** community-wg\
**Created:** [May 13, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-ansible-collections-github-repo-used-for/5791 "2024-05-13T20:50:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![samccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/samccann/32/18_2.png) [@samccann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/samccann)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-ansible-collections-github-repo-used-for/5791/1 "2024-05-13T20:50:17Z")

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… It was on a list of possible repos we can archive but @mariolenz pointed out that it’s used by community.general, amongst other places.

So I’m thinking we can’t archive it… .but maybe based on the answer to this topic, we can add a readme to describe it?

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**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-ansible-collections-github-repo-used-for/5791/2 "2024-05-13T21:36:03Z")

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See this help doc for more info: [Creating a default community health file - GitHub Docs](https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/creating-a-default-community-health-file)

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**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-ansible-collections-github-repo-used-for/5791/3 "2024-05-14T03:43:22Z")

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Yes. Also the `.github` repository contains default issue and PR templates. So basically _almost every_ repository in [Ansible Collections · GitHub](http://github.com/ansible-collections/) is indirectly using that repository, so it should definitely not be archived.

In fact community.general is one of the few repos which uses this least, since it has its own set of issue templates (see the issue and PR templates in [community.general/.github at main · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/tree/main/.github)). 🙂

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**Author:** ![samccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/samccann/32/18_2.png) [@samccann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/samccann)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-ansible-collections-github-repo-used-for/5791/4 "2024-05-14T17:23:21Z")

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Thanks everyone! I added a simple readme to the repo so future me (or anyone else who decides to take a broom to what looks like old repos) will know.