Dear Hoppers, As a community, we're all constantly trying to improve Apache Hop and how the community members can work together and interact.
In that regard, we've come to a point where we may need to reconsider the Mattermost chat [1]. A couple of observations about the Mattermost chat: a) it isn't hosted on an "official" Apache Hop subdomain (nor can it be). b) access is open and free, but the chat history is not publicly available and not indexable by search engines. c) the "quality" of the questions is not always as high as we'd like them to be. There are a lot of open-ended or "build my pipeline" type of questions that should be answered in the documentation and samples. Check out the contribution guides [2] if you'd like to help out with the docs and samples. To improve community interaction on a truly open and publicly available platform, we could consider enabling GitHub discussions [3] on our GitHub repository [4], and move the Mattermost discussions there. GitHub Discussions have several advantages over our current Mattermost chat: a) even though not on an Apache subdomain, the discussions are part of the source code repository, and as such, they're as close as possible to the project's source code and issues b) GitHub Discussions are publicly available and indexable by search engines c) discussions can be labeled, marked as "Answered" etc. The switch to GitHub discussions is nothing but a suggestion, we're eager to know what your thoughts and suggestions are. Let's start the discussion! [1] https://chat.project-hop.org. [2] https://hop.apache.org/community/contributing/ [3] https://github.com/features/discussions [4] https://github.com/apache/hop Regards, Bart
