Open Source Proposal

[CoordinatesNotFound]

Assignment Proposal

Title

Support Group Renames of Ansible

Names and KTH ID

• Yinan Hu ([email protected])
• Hexu Li ([email protected])

Deadline

• Task 3

Category

• Open source

Description

Ansible is an open source automation tool, which has been widely used in configuration management and application deployment. Currently, the module groupmod of Ansible does not support group's rename. And the community ask for fixing this [issue](ansible/ansible#76774) as well as adding a new option conflict_resolution: fail|rename|non_unique.

Therefore, we plan to:

1. Understand Ansible's project architecture and source code.
2. Set up Ansible's development environment and run the source code and tests
3. Solve the issue:
   • Support group renames, probably using the -n, --new-name option of groupmod.
   • If feasible, add a new option conflict_resolution: fail|rename|non_unique
   • Update the related documentation.

Relevance

Ansible is an important automation tool in DevOps practive, which help team deploy IT infrastructure and applications. It leverages a easy-to-understand configuration language (Playbook based on YAML) to define tasks, helping DevOps teams efficiently manage configuration and infrastructure. Thus contribution to Ansible project is highly relevant to DevOps.

[algomaster99]

@CoordinatesNotFound I am trying to find the pull request you would have submitted to solve the above issue. I can't find it. Have you started working on the open source contribution?

[CoordinatesNotFound]

@CoordinatesNotFound I am trying to find the pull request you would have submitted to solve the above issue. I can't find it. Have you started working on the open source contribution?

Hi, we have decided to give up on the task of contribution to open source, sorry for the confusion

[algomaster99]

Thanks for the update!