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Ansible Community Information
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The purpose of the Ansible community is to unite developers, system administrators, operations, and
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IT managers to share and build great automation solutions. This document contains all sorts of
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information about how to contribute and interact with Ansible. Welcome!
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Ways to Interact
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There are a lot of ways to join and be a part of the Ansible community, such as:
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Sharing Ansible with Others
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You can help share Ansible with others by telling friends and colleagues, writing a blog post,
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or presenting at user groups (like DevOps groups or the local LUG or BUG). You are also
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welcome to share slides on speakerdeck, sign up for a free account and tag it “Ansible”. On Twitter,
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you can also share things with #ansible and may wish
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to follow [@AnsibleWorks](https://twitter.com/ansibleworks).
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Sharing Content and Tips
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Join the [Ansible project mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project) and you
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can share playbooks you may have written and other interesting implementation stories. Put your Ansible
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content up on places like github to share with others.
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Sharing A Feature Idea
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If you have an idea for a new feature, you can open a new ticket at
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[github.com/ansible/ansible](https://github.com/ansible/ansible), though in general we like to
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talk about feature ideas first and bring in lots of people into the discussion. Consider stopping
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by the [Ansible project mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project) or #ansible
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on irc.freenode.net.
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Helping with Documentation
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Ansible documentation is a community project too! If you would like to help with the
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documentation, whether correcting a typo or improving a section, or maybe even
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documenting a new feature, submit a github pull request to the code that
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lives in the “docsite/latest/rst” subdirectory of the project. Docs are in restructured text
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format. If you aren’t comfortable with restructured text, you can also open a ticket on
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github about any errors you spot or sections you would like to see added. For more information
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on creating pull requests, please refer to the
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[github help guide](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests).
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Contributing Code (Features or Bugfixes)
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The Ansible project keeps it’s source on github at
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[github.com/ansible/ansible](http://github.com/ansible/ansible)
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and takes contributions through
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[github pull requests](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests).
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When submitting patches, be sure to run the unit tests first “make tests” and always use
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“git rebase” vs “git merge” (aliasing git pull to git pull --rebase is a great idea) to
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avoid merge commits in your submissions.
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We’ll then review your contributions and engage with you about questions and so on. Please be
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advised we have a very large and active community, so it may take awhile to get your contributions
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in! Patches should be made against the 'devel' branch.
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Contributions can be for new features like modules, or to fix bugs you or others have found. If you
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are interested in writing new modules to be included in the core Ansible distribution, please refer
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to the [Module Developers documentation on our website](http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/moduledev.html).
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Ansible's aesthetic encourages simple, readable code and consistent, conservatively extending,
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backwards-compatible improvements. Code developed for Ansible needs to support Python 2.6+,
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while code in modules must run under Python 2.4 or higher. Please also use a 4-space indent
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and no tabs.
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Reporting A Bug
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Bugs should be reported to [github.com/ansible/ansible](http://github.com/ansible/ansible) after
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signing up for a free github account. Before reporting a bug, please use the bug/issue search
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to see if the issue has already been reported.
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When filing a bug, please make sure to include the following information in the bug report:
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* What version of ansible you are using (ansible --version)
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* Steps to reproduce the problem
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* Expected results
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* Actual results.
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If you are not sure if something is a bug yet, you are welcome and encouraged to ask about something on
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the mailing list or IRC first. As we are a very high volume project, if you determine that
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you do have a bug, please be sure to open the issue yourself to ensure we have a record of
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it. Don’t rely on someone else in the community to file the bug report for you.
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Online Resources
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Documentation
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The main ansible documentation can be found at [ansibleworks.com/docs](http://ansibleworks.com/docs).
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As mentioned above this is an open source project, so we accept contributions to the documentation.
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You can also find some best practices examples that we recommend reading at
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[ansible-examples](http://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples).
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Mailing lists
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Ansible has several mailing lists. Your first post to the mailing list will be
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moderated (to reduce spam), so please allow a day or less for your first post.
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[ansible-announce](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-announce) is for release
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announcements and major news. It is a low traffic read-only list and you should only get a few
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emails a month.
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[ansible-project](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project) is the main list, and is
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used for sharing cool projects you may have built, talking about Ansible ideas, and for users to ask
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questions or to help other users.
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[ansible-devel](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-devel) is a technical list for
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developers working on Ansible and Ansible modules. Join here to discuss how to build modules,
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prospective feature implementations, or technical challenges.
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To subscribe to a group from a non-google account, you can email the subscription address, for
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example ansible-devel+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
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IRC
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Ansible has a general purpose IRC channel available at #ansible on irc.freenode.net.
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Use this channel for all types of conversations, including sharing tips, coordinating
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development work, or getting help from other users.
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Miscellaneous Information
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AnsibleWorks Staff
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AnsibleWorks is a company supporting Ansible and building additional solutions based on
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Ansible. We also do services and support for those that are interested. Our most
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important task however is enabling all the great things that happen in the Ansible
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community, including organizing software releases of Ansible. For more information about
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any of these things, contact info@ansibleworks.com
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On IRC, you can find us as mdehaan, jimi_c, Tybstar, and others. On the mailing list,
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we post with an @ansibleworks.com address.
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Community Code of Conduct
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Ansible’s community welcomes users of all types, backgrounds, and skill levels. Please
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treat others as you expect to be treated, keep discussions positive, and avoid discrimination
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or engaging in controversial debates (except vi vs emacs is cool). Posts to mailing lists
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should remain focused around Ansible and IT automation. Abuse of these community guidelines
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will not be tolerated and may result in banning from community resources.
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Contributors License Agreement
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By contributing you agree that these contributions are your own (or approved by your employer)
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and you grant a full, complete, irrevocable
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copyright license to all users and developers of the project, present and future, pursuant
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to the license of the project.
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