The search functionality on Gitter is sorely lacking, which limits it's usefulness for me. This will probably be unpopular, but I get more out of the communities that use Slack (go, kubernetes, etc.) because the search is so much better.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 1:05 PM Andrew Harmon <andrewhhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new to Airlfow and I personally get a lot of use out of Gitter. I find > there's almost always someone in there that can help answer a queation. > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:58 PM Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> 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 > > > -- > Andrew Harmon > (202) 615-6433 > -- Adam Boscarino Senior Data Engineer aboscar...@digitalocean.com ------------------------------ We're Hiring! <https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/> | @digitalocean <https://twitter.com/digitalocean>
