INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS stop ignoring ini (#84001)

* INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS stop ignoring ini

Originally added to avoid configuration files for inventory scripts
now clashes with the much more common ini inventory files.

* add a note to script plugin

* Update lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py

Co-authored-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>

changelogs/fragments/remove_ini_ignored_dir.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS config, removed ``ini`` from the default list, inventory scripts using a corresponding .ini configuration are rare now and inventory.ini files are more common. Those that need to ignore the ini files for inventory scripts can still add it to configuration.

lib/ansible/config/base.yml

@@ -1719,7 +1719,7 @@ INVENTORY_EXPORT:
   type: bool
 INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS:
   name: Inventory ignore extensions
-  default: "{{(REJECT_EXTS + ('.orig', '.ini', '.cfg', '.retry'))}}"
+  default: "{{(REJECT_EXTS + ('.orig', '.cfg', '.retry'))}}"
   description: List of extensions to ignore when using a directory as an inventory source.
   env: [{name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_IGNORE}]
   ini:

lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
         - The plugin does not cache results because external inventory scripts are responsible for their own caching.
         - To write your own inventory script see (R(Developing dynamic inventory,developing_inventory) from the documentation site.
         - To find the scripts that used to be part of the code release, go to U(https://github.com/ansible-community/contrib-scripts/).
+        - Since 2.19 using a directory as an inventory source will no longer ignore .ini files by default,
+          but you can still update the configuration to do so.
 '''
 
 EXAMPLES = r'''# fmt: code