Working Groups are a way for Ansible community members to self-organize around particular topics of interest.
The basic components of a working group:
- Group name and charter (why the group exists);
- Registered real-time chat channel;
- Group of users (at least two!) who will be driving the agenda of the working group;
- Dedicated Forum group (recommended) or wiki space (deprecated).
The basic responsibilities of a working group:
- Follow the Ansible Community Code of Conduct.
- Be responsive on your real-time chat channel;
- Be responsive on the Forum in related topics;
- Report semi-regularly on the cool stuff that your working group is working on;
- Keep your forum group information updated or wiki space clean!
You can find the list of existing working groups in the Ansible communication guide.
Anyone can request to start a Working Group, for any reason.
If you need only a forum group, please request it in the Requesting a forum group topic.
If you also need a real-time chat chennel, paste the following text into a community issue and replace the examples in brackets with your own working group info:
WORKING GROUP NAME: [ Example: unicorn ]
WORKING GROUP PURPOSE:
[ Example: This working group is to review ]
[ all Unicorn-related modules ]
[ ]
(keep it short and sweet)
AT LEAST TWO INITIAL WORKING GROUP MEMBERS:
[ Matrix/Libera.Chat IRC: gregdek / GitHub: @gregdek ]
[ Matrix/Libera.Chat IRC: rbergeron / GitHub: @robynbergeron ]
[ ]
(provide the Matrix/Libera.Chat IRC nicks AND GitHub IDs of your working group members, one name per line please)
REAL-TIME CHAT CHANNEL: [ Example: Matrix: #unicorn:ansible.com | Libera.Chat IRC: #ansible-unicorn ]
(if they don't exist yet, mention that they need to be created)
(you can start with a Matrix channel, then we can add an IRC channel if needed and bridge them)
For more information about real-time chat options, see the Ansible communication guide.
If you get stuck or want to know more, join us in one of the following channels:
- #community:ansible.com on Matrix
#ansible-community
on Libera.Chat IRC
You can also contact the Ansible community team via [email protected]
.