I'm not sure you want my actual opinion :) but here it is.
Ansible is a rocket ship. It has millions and millions of downloads, most of which it has
generated in the past two years. It now happens to be owned by Red Hat. It's probably
the second hottest DevOps project right now besides Docker. Why? Because it's easy for
sysadmins to learn (hey, it's just like ssh-ing to all my machines, I do that already,
but this is way faster!) It has a broad ecosystem -- Google "ansible plus foo"
for any value of foo and you'll find that someone has written some Ansible content.
The core project has 2200 contributors and another few hundred in the pipeline that we
can't even merge fast enough.
It was also largely pioneered by the Fedora team. Fedorans were among its first adopters,
had *huge* influence on its early direction, and are some of its most knowledgeable users
in the world.
Ansible Galaxy is a forge with thousands of users and 7000 modules. We're trying to
open source it, but we're struggling to figure out how to do, who would maintain it,
and where it would live. It could be *way* bigger than what it is, but Ansible has so many
opportunities that we can't even staff Galaxy while we chase all the other
ridiculously huge growth opportunities. Right now it has literally zero dedicated heads.
That's an opportunity for hyper-relevance for whomever reaches out to take it. The
Fedora community is closest among all the distros to being able to reach out with *both
hands* to grab that opportunity. Make Ansible Galaxy the thing that installs hundreds of
different Fedora default distributions! Instead of having a community that agonizes over
packaging, which is *really hard*, build a community of people who build and manage
playbooks instead! Way simpler and *tons* of value! Hey, here's a fully configured
Fedora webserver out of the box! Here's a Drupal server! Here's a database server!
Here's a Redis server! Here's a dozen of each -- take your pick!
There's clearly an opportunity. I'm not interested in "forcing" Fedora
to do anything -- but neither is anyone else. Maybe that's the problem.