I'm in favor of (yet another) slack. It will probably improve community growth and development, not just support searchable answers. I think nonprofits have an easy time getting permanent message retention for free but that would be an issue if that was not possible for Airflow. The default free account does not have permanent message retention (last I checked).
Trent On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 10:32 Daniel Cohen <daniel.co...@cloudinary.com> wrote: > As a newcommer I find gitter lacking it's hard to follow or find things. +1 > slack > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 20:11 Adam Boscarino > <aboscar...@digitalocean.com.invalid> wrote: > > > 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> > > > -- (Sent from cellphone)
