I am new to Apache foundation thing and I want to point out a thing that, when start trying Heron, i got a very big barrier that the documentation is not good enough to do quick start and good understanding the structure of Heron. I saw a few people asking about how to launch the demo topology with facing some technical issues related to python version and configurations.
For my point of view, we are using Heron as production for log parsing system, and we see great opportunity of increasing the usage of Heron with our growth of business. However, recalling my experience when started looking into Heron, the learning curve isn't too high but still much higher than other software or systems. I believe the documentation requires more improvement to let new users to understand more quickly. Furthermore, for a business aspect, I believe Heron requires more use case promotion to people. Many don't know what to do with a piece of software and they forget about it after some time. Cross-language support (Java/Python/Lua/C++) is great for people in different field to start using it, but they can't find a blog/article/tutorial/youtube to realise what they can do with it. I am thinking if we can ask companies to share their experience of using Heron, and also some personal to share what they can do or their idea would help the community growth. Sorry for the long words. Windham Wong OSWE, OSCP, GCIA, Specialist in Cybersecurity Co-Founder, Managing Partner of Stormeye.io, Hong Kong Managed Security Operation Center Limited Email // [email protected] (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/[email protected]/1?redirect=mailto%3Awindham.wong%40stormeye.io&recipient=ZGV2QGhlcm9uLmFwYWNoZS5vcmc%3D) Phone // +852_3590_2212_|_+852_9832_0707 (tel:+85235902212) Fax // +852_3590_2202 (tel:+852_3590_2202) On 10月 16 2020, at 4:44 凌晨, Ning Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Dave! > > IMO our goal is to have an official release, which has been challenging. At > the same time, some kubernetes and python works are going on at least. I > remember the issue we found in the latest release candidate was Python 3 > related. > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:51 PM Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > It would be helpful to have more discussion about what is happening on > > this mailing list. > > > > I’m your last active Mentor and I joined only when it seemed like the > > start of incubation was blocked. > > > > Please show the activity with some visible direction. > > > > > On Oct 15, 2020, at 11:59 AM, Sree Vaddi <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Heron will continue to live long. > > > It has it's own place in the stream processing world among other > > competing technologies.The ever increasing data has stretched competitions > > to the limits of breaking. > > > > > > In addition: > > > In production at the creating company and others around the world.Best > > open source alternative to Google Dataflow, from the recent talks. > > > Higher freedom to customizations, makes it attractive for innovation. > > > 27 continuous monthly meetups. > > > Slack is active.Mailing lists are active. > > > 455 meetup members and counting.40 linkedin group members and counting. > > > > > > All of these, just by a few bunch of us. > > > > > > It is too early for 'retirement' talk, IMHO. > > > Let's focus on, making it to TLP. > > > Taking one task or part of it at a time. > > > > > > > > > Thank you./Sree > > > > > > On Thursday, October 15, 2020, 11:00:10 AM PDT, H W < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > The community size and activity look steady rather than dwindling. The > > > heronstreaming slack is still active. The > > conversations/meetups/discussions > > > keep going well. > > > As for 'retirement' I think that would be premature > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:29 AM Ning Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Hmm. > > >> > > >> Community isn't very active, but there are still works going on (python, > > >> k8s/helm, etc) and a few users relying on the project. IMO it is too > > early > > >> to retire. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:57 PM Josh Fischer <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi All, > > >>> > > >>> It seems the community is dwindling for Heron. I think it is time to > > >> start > > >>> a discussion on retiring the podling. > > >>> > > >>> Thoughts? > > >>> > > >>> - Josh > > >>> > > >> > > > > >
