Add requirement for module metadata

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Toshio Kuratomi 2017-01-03 10:36:11 -08:00
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@ -638,6 +638,14 @@ The following checklist items are important guidelines for people who want to c
* The shebang must always be ``#!/usr/bin/python``. This allows ``ansible_python_interpreter`` to work
* Modules must be written to support Python 2.4. If this is not possible, required minimum python version and rationale should be explained in the requirements section in ``DOCUMENTATION``. This minimum requirement will be advanced to Python-2.6 in Ansible-2.4.
* Modules must be written to use proper Python-3 syntax. At some point in the future we'll come up with rules for running on Python-3 but we're not there yet. See :doc:`developing_modules_python3` for help on how to do this.
* Modules must have a metadata section. For the vast majority of new modules,
the metadata should look exactly like this::
ANSIBLE_METADATA = {'status': ['preview'],
'supported_by': 'community',
'version': '1.0'}
The complete module metadata specification is here: https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/30
* Documentation: Make sure it exists
* Module documentation should briefly and accurately define what each module and option does, and how it works with others in the underlying system. Documentation should be written for broad audience--readable both by experts and non-experts. This documentation is not meant to teach a total novice, but it also should not be reserved for the Illuminati (hard balance).
* If an argument takes both C(True)/C(False) and C(Yes)/C(No), the documentation should use C(True) and C(False).