Pipeline fixes and drop test support for ansible <= 2.12

.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml

@@ -17,19 +17,16 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         ansible:
-          - stable-2.9
-          - stable-2.10
-          - stable-2.11
-          - stable-2.12
           - stable-2.13
           - stable-2.14
           - stable-2.15
           - stable-2.16
+          - stable-2.17
           - devel
 
     runs-on: >-
       ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["stable-2.9", "stable-2.10", "stable-2.11", "stable-2.12", "stable-2.13", "stable-2.14"]'
+          '["stable-2.13", "stable-2.14"]'
       ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
     steps:
 
@@ -46,22 +43,19 @@ jobs:
   units:
     runs-on: >-
       ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["stable-2.9", "stable-2.10", "stable-2.11", "stable-2.12", "stable-2.13", "stable-2.14"]'
+          '["stable-2.13", "stable-2.14"]'
       ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
     name: Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
     strategy:
       # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
       fail-fast: true
       matrix:
         ansible:
-          - stable-2.9
-          - stable-2.10
-          - stable-2.11
-          - stable-2.12
           - stable-2.13
           - stable-2.14
           - stable-2.15
           - stable-2.16
+          - stable-2.17
           - devel
 
     steps:

README.md

@@ -65,20 +65,13 @@ Every voice is important. If you have something on your mind, create an issue or
 ## Tested with Ansible and the following Python versions
 
 Tested Ansible versions:
-- 2.9
-- 2.10
-- 2.11
-- 2.12
 - 2.13
 - 2.14
 - 2.15
 - 2.16
 - devel
 
 Tested Python versions:
-- 2.6
-- 2.7
-- 3.5
 - 3.6
 - 3.7
 - 3.8
@@ -90,6 +83,9 @@ Due to SAP licensing and hardware requirements, integration tests are momentaril
 The modules are tested manually against SAP systems until we found a solution or have some
 modules where we are able to execute integration test we decided to disable these tests.
 
+The test support for Ansible versions 2.9 - 2.12 is disabled due to eol of these versions.
+The modules may work with these versions but are not tested.
+
 ## External requirements
 
 For some modules the below requirements are needed on the host that executes a module.

changelogs/fragments/0043-Ansible_eol_support_drop.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Drop support for ansible <= 2.12
+  - Add test for ansible 2.18 aka devel
+bugfixes:
+  - Fix pipelines

tests/sanity/ignore-2.17.txt

@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ plugins/modules/sap_snote.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed u
 plugins/modules/sap_system_facts.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
 plugins/modules/sap_task_list_execute.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
 plugins/modules/sap_user.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
-plugins/modules/sapcar_extract.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+plugins/modules/sapcar_extract.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+tests/unit/compat/mock.py pylint:use-yield-from  # suggested construct does not work with Python 2

tests/sanity/ignore-2.18.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+plugins/modules/sap_pyrfc.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+plugins/modules/sap_company.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+plugins/modules/sap_control_exec.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+plugins/modules/sap_hdbsql.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+plugins/modules/sap_snote.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+plugins/modules/sap_system_facts.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+plugins/modules/sap_task_list_execute.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+plugins/modules/sap_user.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+plugins/modules/sapcar_extract.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license # Licensed under Apache 2.0
+tests/unit/compat/mock.py pylint:use-yield-from  # suggested construct does not work with Python 2

tests/unit/compat/mock.py

@@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
-# (c) 2014, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]>
-#
-# This file is part of Ansible
-#
-# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+# Copyright (c) 2014, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 # Make coding more python3-ish
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
@@ -33,12 +20,12 @@
     # Allow wildcard import because we really do want to import all of mock's
     # symbols into this compat shim
     # pylint: disable=wildcard-import,unused-wildcard-import
-    from unittest.mock import *
+    from unittest.mock import *  # noqa: F401, pylint: disable=unused-import
 except ImportError:
     # Python 2
     # pylint: disable=wildcard-import,unused-wildcard-import
     try:
-        from mock import *
+        from mock import *  # noqa: F401, pylint: disable=unused-import
     except ImportError:
         print('You need the mock library installed on python2.x to run tests')