Adds directories & email announcement for minor release

docs/ansible-release-announcement/major-release/announcement-email.md

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+Release announcement : Ansible Community Package X.0.0
+
+Hello everyone,
+
+We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible X.0.0 package!
+
+Ansible X.0.0 contains latest version of ansible-core a.b and includes a curated set of Ansible collections that provides a vast number of modules and plugins. This is a major release of Ansible.
+
+ansible-core is a required dependency, not contained within the ansible packages.
+
+The "ansible" distribution
+--------------------------
+
+This release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:
+
+`$ python3 -m pip install ansible==X.0.0 --user`
+
+The source and the wheel for this release can be found here:
+
+Release tarball:
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+Wheel package:
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+Some important details
+----------------------
+
+Python wheels are available for both Ansible X and ansible-core a.b.
+
+In addition, Ansible x no longer installs some unnecessary files from the included Ansible collections such as tests or hidden files and directories.  This  further improves installation performance and reduces the size on disk. These files are still available in the source tarball if needed.
+
+
+Collections which have opted-in to being a part of the Ansible 8 unified changelog will have an entry on this page:
+
+For collections which have not opted-in to the unified changelog, you may find more information on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections or the collection source repository. For example, the community.crypto collection is available at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/index.html and you can find a link to the source repository under the "Repository(Sources)" button.
+
+The changelog for ansible-core a.b installed by this release of Ansible X can be found here: <changelog of ansible-core>.
+
+
+What's the schedule for new Ansible releases after X.0.0?
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+The next release roadmap can be found at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ansible_roadmap_index.html
+
+Subscribe to the Bullhorn for all future release dates, announcements, and Ansible contributor community news.
+
+Visit this link to subscribe: https://bit.ly/subscribe-bullhorn
+
+You can find all past Bullhorn issues on the official wiki page:
+https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/News#the-bullhorn
+
+
+Join our new Ansible Community Forum to follow along and participate in all the discssions release related discussions and announcements. Feel free to share your thoughts, ideas and concerns in there.
+
+Register here to join the Ansible Forum:
+
+https://forum.ansible.com
+
+Porting Help
+------------
+
+A unified porting guide for collections that have opted-in is available here:
+https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_X.html
+
+Getting collection updates from Ansible X with older releases of ansible-core
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Ansible X includes ansible-core a.b. Based on your requirements, you can get collection updates as they ship in the Ansible "batteries included" package while continuing to use older versions of ansible-core.
+
+An ansible-galaxy requirements file based on the collections from Ansible X has been made available for this use case:
+
+<https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/X/galaxy-requirements.yaml>
+
+After you download the requirements file, the collections can be installed by running this command:
+
+"ansible-galaxy collection install -r galaxy-requirements.yaml"
+
+On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!
+
+Cheers
+Ansible Community Team

docs/ansible-release-announcement/major-release/announcement-matrix

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+## Matrix
+
+## Post release announcemnet : Message the following Matrix room after the release
+
+
+#ansible-community
+#ansible-social: (prepended with @newsbot)
+#ansible-packaging
+#ansible-devel
+#ansible: update the topic or ask @sivel to update: /msg ChanServ TOPICSWAP #ansible x.y.z:X.0.0
+#ansible: same message, but only required for major versions of ansible community
+
+
+## Red Hat Ansible Slack #general
+
+```
+[Ansible X.0.0 is out](insert link from the google group ansible-announce : https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce)! ❤️
+
+💽 You can install it by running the following command or download the [release tarball](link to release tarball from PyPI) directly from [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/ansible/):
+
+```
+pip install ansible==X.0.0 --user
+```
+
+➡️ Check [Release Notes📦️🗒️](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/X/CHANGELOG-vx.rst) and [Ansible X Porting Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_X.html) for more details!
+```

docs/ansible-release-announcement/major-release/froum-post-annoucement.md

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+Release announcement : Ansible Community Package X.0.0
+
+
+
+We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible X.0.0 package!
+
+Ansible X.0.0 requires latest version of ansible-core a.b and includes a curated set of Ansible collections that provides a vast number of modules and plugins. This is a major release of Ansible.
+
+ansible-core is a required dependency, not contained within the ansible packages. Pip install builds the
+dependency, but it can be built and installed quite independently of the "ansible" distribution.
+
+The "ansible" distribution
+--------------------------
+
+This release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:
+
+`$ python3 -m pip install ansible==X.0.0 --user`
+
+The sources for this release can be found here:
+
+Release tarball:
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+Wheel package:
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!

docs/ansible-release-announcement/minor-release/announcement-email.md

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+Release announcement : Ansible Community Package X.0.0
+
+Hello everyone,
+
+We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible X.0.0 package!
+
+Ansible X.0.0 requires latest version of ansible-core a.b and includes a curated set of Ansible collections that provides a vast number of modules and plugins. This is a major release of Ansible.
+
+ansible-core is a required dependency, not contained within the ansible packages. Pip install builds the
+dependency, but it can be built and installed quite independently of the "ansible" distribution.
+
+How to get it
+-------------
+
+This release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:
+
+`$ python3 -m pip install ansible==X.0.0 --user`
+
+The sources for this release can be found here:
+
+Release tarball:
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+
+Wheel package:
+
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+
+Some important details
+----------------------
+
+Python wheels are now available for both Ansible X and ansible-core a.b resulting in significantly improved installation performance.
+
+In addition, Ansible x no longer installs some unnecessary files from the included Ansible collections such as tests or hidden files and directories. This further improves installation performance and reduces the size on disk. These files are still available in the source tarball if needed.
+
+Collections which have opted-in to being a part of the Ansible 8 unified changelog will have an entry on this page:
+
+For collections which have not opted-in to the unified changelog, you may find more information on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections or the collection source repository. For example, the community.crypto collection is available at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/index.html and you can find a link to the source repository under the "Repository(Sources)" button.
+
+The changelog for ansible-core a.b installed by this release of Ansible X can be found here: <changelog of ansible-core>.
+
+
+What's the schedule for new Ansible releases after X.0.0?
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+The next release roadmap can be found at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ansible_roadmap_index.html
+
+Subscribe to the Bullhorn for all future release dates, announcements, and Ansible contributor community news.
+
+Visit this link to subscribe: https://bit.ly/subscribe-bullhorn
+
+You can find all past Bullhorn issues on the official wiki page:
+https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/News#the-bullhorn
+
+Join our new Ansible Community Forum to follow along and participate in all the discssions release related discussions and announcements. Feel free to share your thoughts, ideas and concerns in there.
+
+Register here to join the Ansible Forum:
+
+https://forum.ansible.com
+
+Porting Help
+------------
+
+A unified porting guide for collections that have opted-in is available here:
+https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_8.html
+
+Getting collection updates from Ansible X with older releases of ansible-core
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Ansible X includes ansible-core a.b. Based on your requirements, you can get collection updates as they ship in the Ansible "batteries included" package while continuing to use older versions of ansible-core.
+
+An ansible-galaxy requirements file based on the collections from Ansible X has been made available for this use case:
+
+<https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/8/galaxy-requirements.yaml>
+
+After you download the requirements file, the collections can be installed by running this command:
+
+"ansible-galaxy collection install -r galaxy-requirements.yaml"
+
+On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!
+
+Cheers
+Ansible Community Team

docs/ansible-release-announcement/minor-release/announcement-matrix

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+## Matrix
+
+## Post release announcemnet : Message the following Matrix room after the release
+
+
+#ansible-community
+#ansible-social: (prepended with @newsbot)
+#ansible-packaging
+#ansible-devel
+#ansible: update the topic or ask @sivel to update: /msg ChanServ TOPICSWAP #ansible x.y.0:x.y.z
+#ansible: same message, but only required for major versions of ansible community
+
+
+## Red Hat Ansible Slack #general
+
+```
+[Ansible x.y.z is out](insert link from the google group ansible-announce :  https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce)! ❤️
+
+💽 You can install it by running the following command or download the [release tarball](link to release tarball from PyPI) directly from [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/ansible/):
+
+```
+pip install ansible==x.y.z --user
+```
+
+➡️ Check [Release Notes📦️🗒️](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/x/CHANGELOG-vx.rst) and [Ansible x Porting Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_x.html) for more details!
+```

docs/ansible-release-announcement/minor-release/forum-post-announcement.md

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+Release announcement : Ansible Community Package X.c.0
+
+
+
+We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible X.c.0 package!
+
+Ansible X.c.0 requires latest version of ansible-core a.b and includes a curated set of Ansible collections that provides a vast number of modules and plugins.
+
+ansible-core is a required dependency, not contained within the ansible packages. Pip install builds the
+dependency, but it can be built and installed quite independently of the "ansible" distribution.
+
+The "ansible" distribution
+--------------------------
+
+This release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:
+
+`$ python3 -m pip install ansible==X.c.0 --user`
+
+The sources for this release can be found here:
+
+Release tarball:
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+Wheel package:
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!

docs/ansible-release-announcement/pre-release/announcement-email.md

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+Release announcement : Ansible Community Package X.0.0a1 (Pre Release)
+
+Hello everyone,
+
+We're happy to announce the release of the Alpha release of Ansible X.0.0a1!
+
+This pre-release version contains the latest version of ansible-core a.b and includes a curated set of Ansible collections that provides a vast number of modules and plugins.
+
+ansible-core is a required dependency, not contained within the ansible packages.
+
+How to get it?
+--------------
+
+This release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:
+
+`$ python3 -m pip install ansible==X.0.0a1 --user`
+
+The source and the wheel for this release can be found here:
+
+Release tarball:
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+Wheel package:
+
+
+SHA256:
+
+
+Some important details
+----------------------
+
+Python wheels are available for both Ansible X and ansible-core a.b.
+
+In addition, Ansible x no longer installs some unnecessary files from the included Ansible collections such as tests or hidden files and directories.  This  further improves installation performance and reduces the size on disk. These files are still available in the source tarball if needed.
+
+
+Collections which have opted-in to being a part of the Ansible 8 unified changelog will have an entry on this page:
+
+For collections which have not opted-in to the unified changelog, you may find more information on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections or the collection source repository. For example, the community.crypto collection is available at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/index.html and you can find a link to the source repository under the "Repository(Sources)" button.
+
+The changelog for ansible-core a.b installed by this release of Ansible X can be found here: <changelog of ansible-core>.
+
+
+What's the schedule for new Ansible releases after X.0.0a1?
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+The next release roadmap can be found at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ansible_roadmap_index.html
+
+Subscribe to the Bullhorn for all future release dates, announcements, and Ansible contributor community news.
+
+Visit this link to subscribe: https://bit.ly/subscribe-bullhorn
+
+You can find all past Bullhorn issues on the official wiki page:
+https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/News#the-bullhorn
+
+
+Join the new Ansible Community Forum to follow along and participate in all the discssions release related discussions and announcements. Feel free to share your thoughts, ideas and concerns in there.
+
+Register here to join the Ansible Forum:
+
+https://forum.ansible.com
+
+Porting Help
+------------
+
+A unified porting guide for collections that have opted-in is available here:
+https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_X.html
+
+Getting collection updates from Ansible X with older releases of ansible-core
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Ansible X includes ansible-core a.b. Based on your requirements, you can get collection updates as they ship in the Ansible "batteries included" package while continuing to use older versions of ansible-core.
+
+An ansible-galaxy requirements file based on the collections from Ansible X has been made available for this use case:
+
+<https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/X/galaxy-requirements.yaml>
+
+After you download the requirements file, the collections can be installed by running this command:
+
+"ansible-galaxy collection install -r galaxy-requirements.yaml"
+
+On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!
+
+Cheers
+Ansible Community Team