Information on next release (0.2.0)

[felixfontein]

We plan to release a first proper release of the community.general collection shortly, namely a "couple of days" after the initial ansible-base 2.10 beta is released. This is expected to happen during the next few days, i.e. 0.2.0 will probably be released this week.

This will be the first proper release in the sense that it will have a changelog which describes the changes to the modules and plugins in this collections since Ansible 2.9 beta 1 (i.e. when the stable-2.9 branch was created in ansible/ansible), and that all version_added and deprecation version numbers are fixed (version_added was updated in #21, depecations will be updated in #63). The 0.1.0 release is not counted as a proper release, it was mainly there so that the whole releasing process can be boot-strapped (it is not possible to upload collections with dependencies to Ansible Galaxy when the dependencies have never been released).

The next release will be 1.0.0 (or a more precisely a pre-release for it), somewhen during the next months. (This will get pinned down more precisely soon.)

(In case you're interested in this process, everything was discussed and decided in the Ansible Community Working Group meetings, ansible/community#539. Next topics will be some details about community.general and community.network releasing, and defining the Ansible 2.10 release.)

Once all details for future releases of community.general and community.network are fixed, we will create another issue (pinned like this one) in this repository.

If you are creating PRs (or have PRs) which add new modules, plugins or features, these have to be documented with version_added: 0.2.0. If the PR didn't make it into 0.2.0, you need to increase the value to 1.0.0. (There is unfortunately not yet a sanity check for this like there used to be in ansible/ansible.)

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[felixfontein]

The release is essentially done, except that the upload step wasn't set up. So the actual release will show up during the next days.

[felixfontein]

@gundalow will build and upload the collection on Monday.

[felixfontein]

0.2.0 has been published to Galaxy!

[felixfontein]

See #81 about information on the next releases.