The core team has mostly only released packages to pypi, the Ansible site and a PPA, never to the downstream distributions. We stopped adding packages to our site as they were not really used and most of the distributions had their own packages already. It made more sense when we were still a new project that most distros didn't know about, much less included in their repos, that is not the case anymore. Especially now that it is almost trivial to create your own package if needed with existing tools, just point at pypi or github for the sources.
I'm not sure where you get your numbers about 2.9 being the 'current' used by most, it's not even the 'current' available in many distros: Gentoo: ansible-base 2.11.6 (this is really ansible-core but i think packager didn't want to deal with name changes every version) Arch: ansilbe 4.7.0-1 (community package, which includes ansbile-core 2.11.6.) ubuntu (20.04 focal: 2.9.6 ubuntu (21.04) hirsute: 2.10.7 (which is ansible-base) ubuntu (21.10) impish: 2.10.7 debian bullseye: 2.10.7 freebsd 13: 2.9.23 (14 is due soon, not sure what they are using yet) Those are just the ones I have at hand, I'm pretty sure you'll find others with 2.9, 2.10 and 2.11 just depending on how aggressive the distros are at updating versions and their own release schedules. As for @sivel, he responded mostly with RH/fedora/Centos as that is what he mostly deals with daily, I deal with the ones above, so that is what I can respond to easily. In the end the decision about not updating 2.9 comes to a policy, which was created due to limited core resources, we cannot maintain X versions forever, specially since the value of X changes depending on who is asking, I still get requests to update 1.7 and 1.9. We also cannot revise it any time a distro chooses to stay on a specific version (for example,Debian was pinning a version due to licensing in some files not passing their tests), it just does not scale. This policy has been clearly stated and in place for many years (you can check the versioned documentation, it is in git after all) and I'm confident that our record would speak against any perceived bias, as long as you are willing to examine all the facts. ---------- Brian Coca -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-devel/CACVha7e%2BTQ48YVNHt_5u3DU8sD9oGYpwf4mG7a29NMXWR1rXRQ%40mail.gmail.com.
