+1 Slack. I've posted questions on gitter that were not answered. I suppose part of the reason is things are hard to find there. I got much better response here.
If there is a way to get permanent retention on Slack that would be ideal. On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 1:28 PM Ben Gregory <b...@astronomer.io> wrote: > +1 to Slack over Gitter > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:18 PM Daniel Imberman < > daniel.imber...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm with Adam. Slack has been significantly more useful for the k8s > > community. It's now the case that all k8s executor questions are being > > fielded on kubernetes.slack.com. Would be great to have an airflow slack > > instead. > > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 10:54 AM Trent Robbins <robbi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > 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) > > > > > > > > -- > > [image: Astronomer Logo] <https://www.astronomer.io/> > > *Ben Gregory* > Data Engineer > > Mobile: +1-615-483-3653 • Online: astronomer.io < > https://www.astronomer.io/> > > Download our new ebook. <http://marketing.astronomer.io/guide/> From > Volume > to Value - A Guide to Data Engineering. >
