I am all for moving especially looking at the roadmap: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/104 (Q4 2020).
The question is whether it will serve all the purposes that slack serves now and whether we can just abandon slack in one go? J, On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 7:30 PM Tomasz Urbaszek <[email protected]> wrote: > We had a small chat about this on slack: > https://apache-airflow.slack.com/archives/CCPRP7943/p1598111138037700 > > I personally think that if our request for paid Slack is not accepted > we should consider moving to Github Discussion. Even if we got paid > plan, I would be in favor of migrating as we don't know how long it > will be avaliabe for us. > > I saw a few projects using it already and I like keeping discussion > close to code (all this features of linking and nice code snippets!). > If we decide on migration then I would also suggest to consider using > StackOverflow for handling troubleshooting. > > My only concern is that it's even more Github-locking. But I do not > expect Github to request open-source projects to pay for anything. > > Tomek > > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 7:18 PM Kaxil Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I agree and I share the same concern. But I see it as a drop-in > replacement > > for the [email protected] list and is mostly similar to a forum > > which will be indexed by Search engine unlike Slack. > > > > Also as we are on a free plan with Slack, we can't see history :( -- We > > have asked Slack if they can upgrade us since they are also Airflow > Users, > > we will see what happens with that. > > > > Regards, > > Kaxil > > > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 6:14 PM Deng Xiaodong <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > The only concern I can think of is it seems serving identical purpose > of > > > what Slack is serving at this moment (correct me if I’m wrong please). > > > > > > Then attentions (especially from folks who nicely volunteer to answer > > > questions in community) would be distributed unnecessarily. > > > > > > > > > XD > > > > > > > On 24 Aug 2020, at 7:06 PM, Kaxil Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I know most of us might have already heard or read about Github > > > Discussions > > > > < > > > > https://github.blog/2020-05-06-new-from-satellite-2020-github-codespaces-github-discussions-securing-code-in-private-repositories-and-more/ > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > > > I noticed Apache Couchdb has been already using it: > > > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions > > > > > > > > Thought we could also it for the Airflow community. > > > > > > > > What do you all think? If most of us agree I will raise an Issue with > > > > Apache INFRA team to enable it for us. > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Kaxil > > > > > > > -- Jarek Potiuk Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
