Contributing upstream – submitting a GitHub pull request

When you've worked hard on your module and thoroughly tested and documented it, you might feel that it is time to submit it to the Ansible project for inclusion. Doing this means creating a pull request on the official Ansible repository. Although the intricacies of working with GitHub are beyond the scope of this book, we will give you a practically focused outline of the basic procedures involved.

Following the process outlined here will generate a real request against the Ansible project on GitHub so that the code you are committing can be merged with their code. Do not follow this process unless you genuinely have a new module that is ready for submission to the Ansible codebase. ...

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