Unmaintained collection: Removal from Ansible (community) package

[mariolenz]

It looks like this collection is effectively unmaintained. According to the current community guidelines for collections, we will consider removing it in a future version of the Ansible community package. Please see Unmaintained collection: hpe.nimble for more information.

At least one month after this announcement appears here and on Bullhorn, the Ansible Community Steering Committee will vote on whether this collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed, or whether it will be kept. If it will be removed, this will happen earliest in Ansible 10. Please note that people can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install hpe.nimble even when it has been removed from Ansible.

[felixfontein]

CC @datamattsson @sijeesh - did the state of this collection in described in #58 (comment) changed? Or is it still effectively unmaintained?

[datamattsson]

@felixfontein we're trying to resource this project as we speak, no timelines yet though.

[felixfontein]

@datamattsson thanks for the response! So the collection is basically in the same state as in December 2022 (#58 (comment))?

[datamattsson]

@felixfontein no one has touched it since December '21. It still works and by all means supported by HPE.

[mariolenz]

@datamattsson Keeping this collection in Ansible / the community package is not a question of HPE supporting it or not. It's a question of satisfying the Ansible community package collections requirements. And I think you're violating at least some of the CI testing requirements.

Just to make this clear, removing it from Ansible doesn't kill this collection. People just have to install it via galaxy instead of getting it with the community package automatically.

If you don't want to be removed from the community package, please do a new release that at least fixes #61