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[dagwieers]

We could collectively benefit from forming a Working Group related to HP-UX integration. We have quite some contributors on Github and users on IRC that are interested in improving this integration.

So this issue is a wake-up call to potential interested parties (earlier and existing contributors to Ansible). The benefits of having a Working Group is that members of the Working Group can:

• test, review and add shipits to existing HP-UX-related PRs
• work collectively on the HP-UX roadmap
• provide a single-point-of-contact for interested HP-UX contributors
• collaborate on a HP-UX-specific Wiki
• have a $team_hpux in BOTMETA.yml for auto-notifying team members (team_hpux: Add auto-labeling for HP-UX ansible#51075)
• implement auto-labeling HP-UX issues and PRs (team_hpux: Add auto-labeling for HP-UX ansible#51075)

Since we don't have any HP-UX infrastructure for automated testing, collaborating on modules like this is important for the quality of the modules.

[dagwieers]

cc @sdodsley @Akasurde @rgroten @cocampbe @mtkunkel @taksekine @fallencliff @jokurz @pdelared @rik2803 @melodous @tgolly @Logos01
cc @Hr0bar @rpettersen @alikins @davx8342
cc @bcoca @samdoran

[dagwieers]

If you want to actively lead or are interested to be part of this Working Group, add your name to the Wiki page ! If we have a large enough group, we can start our own HP-UX Working Group.

I started labeling all the HP-UX related issues and PRs so we can more easily track them:

• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pulls?q=is:pr+is:open+label:hpux (1 open PRs)
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues?q=is:issue+is:open+label:hpux (5 open issues)

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[dagwieers]

cc @dbckz @uucico

[dagwieers]

I refactored the swdepot module and added integration tests, you can find this at: ansible/ansible#51106
Can someone with access to an HP-UX system test the new module and integration tests ?

You need to clone my fork, checkout my branch, then run ansible-test:

git clone https://github.com/dagwieers/ansible ansible.dagwieers
cd ansible.dagwieers
git checkout swdepot-refactor
ansible-test integration --allow-destructive --allow-unsupported swdepot

You may have to modify the integration test at test/integration/targets/swdepot/tasks/main.yml to point the tests to your depot/repository. By default the tests uninstall and reinstall the 'unzip' package.

[davx8342]

If you want to actively lead or are interested to be part of this Working Group, show your support in this ticket !

Yeah, this is something that's on my list. Last year there was a re-org at work and, to cut a long story short, automation took a back seat while the new team bedded in.

I've got access to HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31, 11.33, 11iv1, 11iv2, 11iv3 in house so I should be able to contribute some time to this.

[dagwieers]

@davx8342 Welcome to the team ;-) I would really appreciate if you could test the swdepot refactored code and even test/fix the included integration test.