+1 for me on using GitHub discussions and keeping Slack channel for the social aspects of the community
Sergio Inviato da iPad > Il giorno 7 ott 2024, alle ore 15:43, Bart Maertens <bartm...@apache.org> ha > scritto: > > 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
