Important information for collection maintainers

[Andersson007]

SUMMARY

Dear maintainers,

This is important for your collections!

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[Andersson007]

@D3DeFi @dj-wasabi @ragingpastry hello, could you please, as the collection maintainers, subscribe to the news-for-maintainers repo? See above ^.

@rockaut @sky-joker hello, thanks for subscribing! :)

I've grepped through files in this repo and have discovered centos8 mentioned in several files. It should be removed if we wanna see the CI green here. For details, see ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers#3.
If anyone updates the files (if needed), it would be great:)

Thank you!

[dj-wasabi]

@Andersson007 thanks bro! I have subscribed just a few moments ago. 👍

[Andersson007]

@dj-wasabi that's great, you're welcome, thanks:)

[D3DeFi]

Oh, thanks for reminding us @Andersson007, I've subscribed to community-topics repo and thought those are the same things. Subscribed also to news-for-maintainers

[Andersson007]

@D3DeFi thanks!

[ragingpastry]

Subscribed @Andersson007 !

[Andersson007]

@ragingpastry thank you!

[Andersson007]

Hey folks! As you can see the sanity checks are failing.
Could anyone please:

• Copy ignore-2.13.txt to ignore-2.14.txt as mentioned there ansible-core devel branch updated to 2.14.0.dev0 news-for-maintainers#13
• Also there were 2 other announcements recently that need maintainer attention:
  • ansible-test reduced Python 2.7 support news-for-maintainers#15
  • ansible-core stable-2.13 branch available for testing news-for-maintainers#14

When you create PRs, could you please put something like Relates to <corresponding_issue> so that it'll be easier for me to track repos that fixed CI (but please don't put Fixes ... as it'll close the issue).

Looking forward to your feedback,
Thanks!

[D3DeFi]

@Andersson007 thank you for reminding us! I've noticed these changes, but haven't had a chance (until now) to address them. I think that #666 should pretty much cover these. We already skip tests for 2.12 and above for 2.7 an 3.6 python versions.

Can you please confirm that it looks good know in #666? I will also let this issue be closed by it. We can reopen it anytime its needed.

[Andersson007]

@D3DeFi you're welcome:) The PR LGTM, thanks!