Hi +1 for moving to GitHub Discussions. I also think that setting a clear format for questions would help provide more context and improve the overall quality of discussions.
+1 as well for adding a Slack channel in the ASF Slack workspace. Cheers, Adalennis El jue, 10 oct 2024 a las 23:18, Sergio Ramazzina (<sramazz...@gmail.com>) escribió: > +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 > -- Adalennis Buchillón Soris *Datavin3 <https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavin3/>'s writer and instructor*
