[Associated vote ended on 2023-08-29] Unmaintained collection: hpe.nimble

[mariolenz]

Summary

The hpe.nimble collection looks unmaintained / abandoned, it has:

• no new commits since December 2021
• no release on Galaxy since version 1.1.4 2 year ago
• no reaction on Consider using true/false for all booleans in docs hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#60
• no reaction on ansible-test sanity issues hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#61
• no answer in Unmaintained collection: Removal from Ansible (community) package hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#62

[mariolenz]

The Bullhorn issue #109 2023-07-14

[mariolenz]

@ansible-community/steering-committee Vote happens in #265

[gotmax23]

There was a response to hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#59 earlier this year.

[mariolenz]

There was a response to hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#59 earlier this year.

Possibly, but there hasn't been a new release since 2021. And there are two (hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#54 + hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#61) issues about failing sanity tests without any reaction. Looks pretty unmaintained to me 🤷

[felixfontein]

I tried to ping the last two HPE folks who wrote something in the open PRs in hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#62 (comment) - maybe we'll get a reaction.

[felixfontein]

According to hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#62 (comment) the collection is supported by HPE and it still works, even though it hasn't been touched since December 2021 and there are no resources allocated to it (yet).

So I don't think it's unmaintained, but it does not satisfy our inclusion rules either - tests haven't been run for a long time, the CI workflow only checks up to ansible-core 2.11 (https://github.com/hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules/blob/master/.github/workflows/sanity-test.yml#L18), and sanity tests currently fail (though not with something really important AFAICT from the issue).

[mariolenz]

I counted votes:

7 x +1 from SC (mariolenz Andersson007 felixfontein markuman russoz briantist gotmax23), no -1 from SC, 1 x undecided (0) from SC (jamescassell)

no votes from community

Can someone from the @ansible-community/steering-committee confirm?

[Andersson007]

@mariolenz i confirm your count, thanks!

[mariolenz]

In that case the proposal has been accepted and we will announce to remove the collection from Ansible 10.

Thanks all!

[mariolenz]

IIRC we've kept issues like this one about collection removal from version X open until X has been released. However, since we've moved discussions to the forum and the collection has been removed from 10.0.0.a1, I think we should close this even if 10.0.0 hasn't been released yet.

If someone wants to discuss cancelling the removal / re-adding of the collection, please open a topic in the forum.