Grafana Pinboard

[gundalow]

We could collectively benefit from forming a Working Group related to Grafana integration. We have quite some contributors on GitHub and users on IRC that are interested in improving this integration.

So this issue is a call for potential interested parties (earlier and existing contributors to Ansible). The benefits of having a Working Group is that members of the Working Group can:

• test, review and add shipits to existing Grafana PRs
• work collectively on the Grafana roadmap
• provide a single-point-of-contact for interested Grafana contributors
• collaborate on an Grafana Wiki
• have a $team_grafana in BOTMETA.yml for auto-notifying team members
• implement auto-labeling grafana issues and PRs

[gundalow]

@seuf @rrey Feel free to use this issue for communication and https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Grafana for documentation.

Please give me a shout if there is anything else. I wonder if reviewing the existing PRs would be a good place to start

[rrey]

Thank you @gundalow !

I'll start by reviewing the PRs !

[gundalow]

Bot meta update ansible/ansible#63859
Means you can do shipit on any PR.
Any problems or questions please shout out. #ansible-devel on Freenode is the best place

[gundalow]

Hi,
Could you please git mv the existing grafana modules to monitoring/grafana/ see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/64497/files for an example.

I didn't want to do by myself now as there seem to be a number of open Grafana PRs https://ansible.sivel.net/pr/byfile.html (ctrl+f grafana). Once the new directory has been created the new module PRs will need rebasing and adding into the new directory.

Thanks

[rrey]

@gundalow I made the PR here : ansible/ansible#64657

I think it can be merged after ansible/ansible#50816.
I will deal with the contributors on the other open PRs.

[rrey]

@gundalow have no answer from author on ansible/ansible#50816 so I think we the ansible/ansible#64657 can be merged whenever you want. I have just rebased it, do you need any thing else on this PR ?

What are the next steps for working groups about the move to collections ?

[gundalow]

@rrey Looks like the above got merged, which is great.

For the Grafana Working group the question is:

Would you want your own repo, or be in the general Community Collection repo?

Being in your own repo gives you some more control, and freedom to do a release of the Grafana collection independently of the main Community Collection.

I am looking for some willing Working Groups to test this out. Basically we'd freeze ansible/ansible and just do the work in the new collection repo.

I'm happy to jump on a call and discuss any of this if that may be easier.

[rrey]

Hi !

I think it makes more sense to have a lifecycle for each working group.
I would go for a dedicated repo ! So you found a working group to test this out as far as I'm concerned !

[gundalow]

@rrey @seuf Hi, I've created https://github.com/gundalow-collections/grafana which is a copy of what's currently in ansible/ansible:devel. It has basic CI (Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 1804). I've invited you both to the org, you should receive an email from GitHub to accept joining the team.

[gundalow]

I wonder if one of the PRs from https://github.com/ansible/ansible/labels/grafana could be reworked for the new repo, perhaps ansible/ansible#62930 or ansible/ansible#64097 ?

[rrey]

Thanks !
I think I can move ansible/ansible#62930 quickly on the collection repo. I'll start there.

[gundalow]

@seuf if you want to jump on a call so we can discuss this, let me know.

[rrey]

@gundalow what should we do for our modules maintenance ?

Should we use the gundalow-collections/grafana to push all the new fixes and content ?
Should we keep on fixing modules on ansible/ansible ?

[gundalow]

@rrey @seuf I think we can ignore Grafana files in ansible/ansible for the moment.

I've just your closed the two PRs (one from each of you) that have been replicated in ansible-collections/grafana

1. Should I move gundalow-collections/grafana to ansible-collections/grafana now, we can continue to prototype GitHub workflow there. I think this should be done before we ask anyone else to contribute to make it look more official (rather than in my personal GH Org)

2. Do you think we are ready to ask https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pulls?q=label%3Agrafana+is%3Aopen+is%3Apr to re-create their PRs in the new repo?

[rrey]

1. Let's go !!

2. Only #55651 is directly related to grafana. I think we can ask the author once the new repo is ready.

[gundalow]

1. Done https://github.com/ansible-collections/grafana
   You should both receive emails that invite you to be members of the new repo.

2. I've put a comment on Add Thruk as Grafana Datasource ansible/ansible#55651 lets see how that works out.

[dericcrago]

I'm going to try to migrate this pinboard to https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.grafana but there may be a slight disruption as it requires multiple moves. I will follow up when the migration has been completed.

[dericcrago]

migrated and pinned!

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