(cherry picked from commit 504ef60)

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* Document the format of meta/runtime.yml

* Document multiple Ansible versions

Clarify difference between deprecation and tombstone fields

* add note

(cherry picked from commit a9eb8b0)

* add note to uninstall older versions of ansible for pip

* combine with the other PR

(cherry picked from commit 72d3d44)

Added a scenario guide for ``hostnames`` parameter
for vmware_vm_inventory.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0055673)

- Explain how `regex` differs from `match` and `search`.
- Document `multiline` and `ignorecase`.

Signed-off-by: Rick Elrod <rick@elrod.me>
(cherry picked from commit 701c638)

…le#70796)

Fixes: ansible#26148

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit a6725d6)

see ansible#70895

(cherry picked from commit 11a31e9)

…ansible#70991)

(cherry picked from commit a0523e5)

* draft of 2.10 collections roadmap

* incorporates feedback from felixfontein

* gundalow and samccann feedback, fix link

Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 9879da8)

…#71027)

Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
(cherry picked from commit 4f4436c)

* adding return value examples
* shift to console code blocks
* cleaning up whitespace and shortening invocation example
* reordering diff section

(cherry picked from commit 864573a)

Added two additional learning resources in the See also: section- forgot closing backticks

(cherry picked from commit 9850915)

Update the docs to guide users to use `ansible-runner` instead of using Python API directly. In many use cases, executing Ansible playbooks are sufficient. In those use cases, `ansible-runner` is easier and much stable to use comparing with Python API, but there is no mention of it.

(cherry picked from commit 0c855dc)

* Fix changelog link title.

* Rename Ansible 2.10 and 2.11 porting guides to Ansible-base porting guides.

* Add stub for automatically generated 2.10 porting guide.

* Move things that should not be in the ansible-base porting guide to the ansible porting guide.

* Apply changes to base porting guides.

* Add remark that ansible-base is mainly for developers.

* Ansible Base -> Ansible-base

* Fix link in base porting guide.

* Add generated porting guide.

* Use same header signs as antsibull-changelog's RST builder.

* Update generated porting guide.

(cherry picked from commit 61b36c6)

* fqcn all the docs things!

(cherry picked from commit 54bee71)

Fixes ansible#70348

(cherry picked from commit 5019335)

* document how to migrate between collections
* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: John R Barker <john@johnrbarker.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
(cherry picked from commit 58145df)

(cherry picked from commit e28b20d)

* Add latest rc from ansible-base

(cherry picked from commit d62dffa)

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... as reported in issue ansible#68702

(cherry picked from commit 8c48366)

(cherry picked from commit 0a9638c)