I am in the gitter chat most work days and there's always activity. I would be fine with switching to permanent retention slack for searchability but don't see the point of switching without that feature.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 12:59 Sid Anand <[email protected]> wrote: > For a while now, we have had an Airflow Gitter account. Though this seemed > like a good idea initially, I'd like to hear from the community if anyone > gets value of out it. I don't believe any of the committers spend any time > on Gitter. > > Early on, the initial committers tried to be available on it, but soon > found it impossible to be available on all the timezones in which we had > users. Furthermore, Gitter notoriously sucks at making previously answered > questions discoverable. Also, the single-threaded nature of Gitter > essentially makes it confusing to debug/discuss more than on topic at a > time. > > The community seems to be humming along by relying on the Apache mailing > lists, which don't suffer the downside listed above. Hence, as newbies join > Apache Airflow, they likely hop onto Gitter. Are they getting value from > it? If not, perhaps we are doing them a disservice and should consider just > deleting it. > > Thoughts welcome. > -s >
