On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:41:44AM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: > Hi, > > so as people know, the ansible repository is quite old. Fedora was one > of the first big public ansible user, and as such, has a rather huge repo. > > And going where no one has gone before has the downside of not being > able to build on others people experience with the new tools, resulting in > sometime less optimal solutions, or using older patterns, or just regular > bitrot. And as people have seen on the list, I did sent a few patches > for refactoring and cleaning things around as I did explore the repo, > but I think it would be more efficient to work on that as a team. > > Therefor, I would like to know who would be interested by a hackfest during > flock this year. The idea would be to focus on improving existing playbooks. > And among the tasks, we could have: > - convert tasks who are not to be roles (example, 2fa) > - start using dependencies among roles (example, collectd, fedmsg) > - move from yum modules to packages (to handle the yum to dnf change) I had a discussion with Toshio on IRC a while ago and the package module isn't actually *the* answer to all our use-cases. For the simplest cases it will work, but for example if we want/need to interact with repo (for example adding infra-testing) then it won't work. So a playbook like the upgrade_package one, is not really convertible to the packages module :( That being said, for roles where we only install packages, porting from yum/dnf to packages should work, > - remove things < F21 (or EL 6 when applicable) > - move handlers, vars, files to role (or role arguments) > - move cronjob declaration to cron module (since currently, cron is not reloaded, > so changes are not picked) > > and I think that alone would keep us busy. > That's most of the time small tasks, so that would scale well to any number of participants, > and with a low complexity, so open to everybody. > > I already did the proposal before the end of the Cfp, but I kinda > forgot to send a email about it. > > Any people besides me interested ? I think it's a good idea. Eventually we could tackle a few of these during technical debt fighting weeks as well. Pierre _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
