On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:35 AM Randall Becker <the.n.e....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > To contribute or not to contribute? I have to (no choice) integrate an SCM > front-end product into Ansible that performs some very platform-specific > installation and activation tasks that do not have general applicability > across platforms. My general sense is to develop this following recommended > conventions, but not initially contributing it. I expect, perhaps a grand > total of 50 playbooks (at customers) might be developed to use this in the > next 3 years or so. Still, the customers I have who want to do this are > important and I must service them. I am contemplating a plugin for the common > functions (maybe 250-ish) and individual modules for each main operation. > There are about 10-ish of those at present with significantly different > parameters in each, other than a common set of about 5 or 6. Is it logical to > manage all of this as drops-in for my customers for now and consider > contributing to Ansible at some time in the future of the the target > community exceeds my estimates?
Based on the information provided, I think this is a great candidate for creating a Role (or many Roles) since roles can carry their own modules, module_utils, plugins, etc and hosting it (them?) on Galaxy[0] for the community to easily discover, make use of, and (hopefully) contribute back to. -AdamM [0] - https://galaxy.ansible.com/ > > Thanks, > Randall > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Development" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
