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[Andersson007]

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[Andersson007]

I'm happy to announce that the registration (free) for the Ansible Contributor Summit is open.

Which day should you attend?

• If you are wondering what it means to "contribute" to Ansible, or if you have been using Ansible for a while and are thinking of ways to get more involved with the project and community, then Day 1 (September 28, Tuesday) is for you! We will have hands-on labs and demos + a hackathon.
• If you have already been contributing or participating in our previous Contributor Summits, you are still welcome to attend Day 1, however we think that Day 2 (October 1, Friday) will be more interesting for you.

Refer to the registration page for details.

See you at the summit!

[mator]

@Andersson007 , @felixfontein ,
#3242 could be probably used as a sample (simple to fix, just create a PR) for the hackathon to introduce new ansible developers...

[Andersson007]

@mator yes, thanks! there's the hackmd.io file, feel free to update.
Also would be nice to mark the issue somehow to prevent fixing it before the hackathon:)

[mator]

Also would be nice to mark the issue somehow to prevent fixing it before the hackathon:)

i believe another label like hackathon21 would make it easier to search =)

[Andersson007]

Also would be nice to mark the issue somehow to prevent fixing it before the hackathon:)

i believe another label like hackathon21 would make it easier to search =)

sounds good, and maybe put explicitly "Please don't fix this before the hackathon 09.21 "

[dericcrago]

Reminder - AnsibleFest and Ansible Contributor Summit are 1 week away!

In case you missed it, we will also be having a Hackathon throughout the entire Ansible Contributor Summit and AnsibleFest. This is a great opportunity to collaborate in real time with other members of the Ansible Community!

For more info and the latest updates, please see the Ansible Contributor Summit 2021.09 HackMD.

[Andersson007]

Reminder - Day 1 of the Ansible Contributor Summit and the Hackathon start tomorrow (Tuesday, 28 September 2021)!

For more info and the latest updates, please see the Ansible Contributor Summit 2021.09 HackMD.

[Andersson007]

Reminder - Day 2 of the Ansible Contributor Summit and the last day of the Hackathon start tomorrow (Friday, 1 October 2021)!

For more info and the latest updates, please see the Ansible Contributor Summit 2021.09 HackMD.

[v1v]

I don't know whether this is the right place to ask, I saw the general discussions topic.

Is there any publicly available telemetry data that I could query to know roughly how many installations per version have been downloaded for this collection? Or even how many times a plugin has been used in this collection? I'd like to know the adoption to keep working/adding features in some of the plugins.

Thanks

[felixfontein]

@v1v ansible does not collect or report any telemetry. There is only a global collection download counter on Ansible Galaxy, but that isn't really helpful since a lot of other collections install community.general in CI (while yet other users simply install the ansible community package and also obtain a copy of the collection that way).

[v1v]

Thanks @felixfontein, I guess, either I build something to collect those metrics and enable users to opt-out or do nothing ad keep adding features :)

If I add this telemetry to the plugins I'm interested, is there anything I should be careful about? Just in case a similar question was raised in the past.

Thanks again

[mator]

@v1v why would you like to collect telemetry, and how you would do it? What does it mean "opt-out", can I be free and not "opt-in" in the first place? Thanks

[felixfontein]

I don't think we will ever have something that's opt-out. I'm also not sure whether opt-in would be accepted.

[v1v]

This is related to adding telemetry data to one of the plugins

why would you like to collect telemetry, and how you would do it?

Ideally, to help me to understand if it's used and keep contributing adding new features. Sending a quite basic data with:

• collection name
• plugin name
• ansible version

To an endpoint.

What does it mean "opt-out", can I be free and not "opt-in" in the first place?

Sorry for the misleading, I meant that the telemetry data would be sent by default, unless a property is configured to disable it.

For instance, some other FOSS projects use a similar concept -> https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/blob/master/jep/214/README.adoc . Though, it's provided by the core itself.