Hello Nathan, I hear you on setting up a local environment, that was one reason I put this tutorial together back in 2017, unfortunately it maybe a little out of date now: https://github.com/mikeghen/airflow-tutorial
I recently integrated a similar tutorial into the Apache Unomi website also along the lines of helping people setup local environments for evaluation purposes: https://unomi.apache.org/tutorial.html I think something similar might be good, some documentation focused on making it easy for anyone to evaluate Airflow. I am sure a lot of people are capable of getting running and hopefully with some enhancements, even beginners will be able to get setup with Airflow and perform meaningful evaluations. Anyway, I think both projects sound good and the documentation one is something I am interested in as well, if you'd like any assistance, get in touch with me :) On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:57 PM Nathan Maynes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I wanted to introduce myself. I am Nathan Maynes and would like to get > involved in an open source project. I currently work as a Data Engineer and > recently participated at an Apache RoadShow event in Washington DC. At the > event I was introduced to Airflow and became interested in helping the > project grow. I asked a few Apache project contributors and committers for > advice on getting involved. They all mentioned I should start by looking > for ways to improve documentation. Following their advice, I stumbled > upon the list of possible > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Season+of+Docs+2019> > Airflow projects for Google Season of Docs (GSoD) 2019. I would love to get > involved even if it is not via the GSoD program but don't quite know where > to begin. Please forgive my ignorance if this message is off topic or more > appropriate for another forum. > > When I look at the possible project list on the project Confluence site, > two of the projects jump out at me. The system diagram project is one I > would be interested in working on. It seems much shorter than others on the > list. Is that by design? Are these project suggestions meant to be combined > to form a project of appropriate scale? The second project I find > interesting and personally relevant is around setting up a local > environment. This is something that I recently attempted and found > frustrating. I think building out the documentation on getting started > would benefit the project. As the Confluence entry points out, the > documentation seems to be available, it just needs to be organized and > polished. > > I am looking for feedback on whether a solid proposal for one of these > ideas is enough. Should multiple ideas be combined into a larger project? > Would instructional videos be desirable in conjunction with one of these > projects? Again, I apologize if this is not the right forum for these kinds > of questions. I will happily take feedback and ideas via the mailing list > or on the Slack channel. Thanks everyone! > > -- > Nathan Maynes <http://bit.ly/115hXAt> > @nathanmaynes >
