* Removed modules no longer have documentation
Decided this was causing people to think that modules were supported
even after being removed. This change is a new strategy to have the
error message trying to use a removed module point people to the older
documentation.
* Add stubs for modules removed in 2.7
These are freshly removed so we want people who are still using them
when they upgrade Ansible to have a hint as to where to find information
on how to port.
* Finish properly undeprecating include
include was undeprecated earlier but not all of the pieces that marked
it as deprecated were reverted. This change fixes the remaining
pieces
Enforce module deprecation.
After module has reached the end of it's deprecation cycle we will replace it with a docs stub.
* Replace deprecated modules with docs-only sub
* Use of deprecated past deprecation cycle gives meaningful message (see examples below)
* Enforce documentation.deprecation dict via `schema.py`
* Update `ansible-doc` and web docs to display documentation.deprecation
* Document that structure in `dev_guide`
* Ensure that all modules starting with `_` have a `deprecation:` block
* Ensure `deprecation:` block is only used on modules that start with `_`
* `removed_in` A string which represents when this module needs **deleting**
* CHANGELOG.md and porting_guide_2.5.rst list removed modules as well as alternatives
* CHANGELOG.md links to porting guide index
To ensure that meaningful messages are given to the user if they try to use a module at the end of it's deprecation cycle we enforce the module to contain:
```python
if __name__ == '__main__':
removed_module()
```
Changes to the metadata format were approved here:
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/54
* Update documentation to the new metadata format
* Changes to metadata-tool to account for new metadata
* Add GPL license header
* Add upgrade subcommand to upgrade metadata version
* Change default metadata to the new format
* Fix exclusion of non-modules from the metadata report
* Fix ansible-doc for new module metadata
* Exclude metadata version from ansible-doc output
* Fix website docs generation for the new metadata
* Update metadata schema in valiate-modules test
* Update the metadata in all modules to the new version
* fix module doc fields
* More module docs corrections
* More module docs corrections
* More module docs corrections
* More module docs corrections
* correct aliases
* Review comments
* Must quote ':'
* More authors
* Use suboptions:
* restore type: bool
* type should be in the same place
* More tidyups
* authors
* Use suboptions
* revert
* remove duplicate author
* More issues post rebase
* Deprecate ec2_vpc module
The deprecation of ec2_vpc module has been discussed for
2 years and is causing duplication of effort as changes
are implemented for ec2_vpc rather than for the newer
alternatives
* Improve module deprecation documentation
Update the developing modules documentation with the latest
instructions on how to deprecate a module.
Toshio Kuratomi
Alicia Cozine
Dag Wieers
John R Barker
Matt Martz
Matt Clay
Will Thames
Will Thames