Hi Boris, Thanks for reaching out! Yeah, currently the most active place to ask questions is the Kudu slack #kudu-general channel. Sometimes we talk about dev stuff, but it is also a place user questions. Given its activity, sometimes user questions fall through the cracks, although we try to avoid this as much as possible.
You raise a good point though: for a new user, it might seem like the wrong place to ask questions if there are a bunch of dev conversations going on. There have been discussions in the past to migrate those discussions to a #kudu-dev or something similar. Would be interested in seeing whether others think it's time to bring this to fruition. I should also point out that the Cloudera Community forums are also a nice platform for Q&A. There's a board for Impala, where Kudu questions are often asked, so feel free to ask questions there too! On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Boris Tyukin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > as a new user to Kudu, it is confusing what is the best venue to post user > type questions about Kudu which is important for any thriving open source > project. I have posted some questions on slack and got a feeling they were > not welcome there as discussions on slack seem to be focused on > development. I can see that slack group is very active though. > > the user group is not that active though with like 10 email threads this > month. > > Can someone clarify this for us newcomers? > > We also have official channel for paying CDH customers but there are > benefits to use informal ones :) > > Thanks for such an amazing product and everything you do! > > Boris > -- Andrew Wong
