Forgot to provide the link... [1] https://www.apache.org/dev/services.html#blogs (Apache infra services) [2] https://www.apache.org/dev/freebsd-jails (FreeBSD Jail provided by Apache Infra)
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:46 AM Becket Qin <becket....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks for the feedback. These are good points. We should absolutely shoot > for a dynamic website to support more interactions in the community. There > might be a few things to solve: > 1. The website code itself. An open source solution would be great. TBH, I > do not have much experience on building a website. It'll be great if > someone could help comment on the solution here. > 2. The hardware to host the website. Apache Infra provides a few > services[1] that Apache projects can leverage. I did not see database > service, but maybe we can run a simple MySQL db in FreeBSD jail[2]. > > @Bowen & vino, thanks for the positive feedback! > > @Shaoxuan Wang <wshaox...@gmail.com> > Thanks for the suggestion. That sounds reasonable to me. We probably need > a page in the Flink official site anyways, even just provide links it to > the ecosystem website. So listing the connectors in that static page seems > something we could start with while we are working on the dynamic pages. > > Thanks, > > Jiangjie (Becket) Qin > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:40 AM Shaoxuan Wang <wshaox...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Becket and Robert, >> >> I like this idea! Let us roll this out with Flink connectors at the >> first beginning. We can start with a static page, and upgrade it when we >> find a better solution for dynamic one with rich functions. >> >> Regards, >> Shaoxuan >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:36 AM Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey Becket, >>> >>> This is a great idea! >>> For this to be successful, we need to make sure the page is placed >>> prominently so that the people submitting something will get attention for >>> their contributions. >>> I think a dynamic site would probably be better, if we want features >>> such as up and downvoting or comments. >>> I would also like this to be hosted on Apache infra, and endorsed by the >>> community. >>> >>> Does anybody here know any existing software that we could use? >>> The only think I was able to find is AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/ >>> (which is a community packages site for Arch Linux. The source code of this >>> portal is open source, but the layout and structure is not an ideal fit for >>> our requirements) >>> >>> Best, >>> Robert >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 12:03 PM Becket Qin <becket....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I would like to start a discussion thread about creating a Flink >>>> ecosystem website. The website aims to help contributors who have developed >>>> projects around Flink share their work with the community. >>>> >>>> Please see the following doc for more details. >>>> >>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/12oCItoLbKrLGuwEUFcCfigezIR2hW3925j1hh3kGp4A/edit# >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Jiangjie (Becket) Qin >>>> >>>
