Congratulations, Ash! Happy to know you will keep working on Airflow as part of your new job! Good luck in a new place, hope you will enjoy it a lot:)
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:43 AM Bas Harenslak < [email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations with the new job! > > Seems you’re already spending lots of time outside working hours on > Airflow so looking forward to the future! > > Bas > > On 18 Apr 2019, at 20:37, Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I've hinted at this to a few people in Slack, and it's now official. I'm > super excited to be able to say that I've joined Astronomer as a full time > employee, and a good portion of my time will be still be devoted to working > on the core Airflow project itself! > > Hopefully the amount of time I was able to spend on 1.10.3 will give > everyone an idea of how serious the folks at Astronomer are about giving > back to the Airflow project. > > Being able to work almost full time on Airflow opens me up to spend more > time on some of the more "strategic" jobs that we all know are sorely > lacking right now: > > - Creating a Road map for Airflow 2.0 and beyond (thank you James M for > the kick!) > - Triaging Jira issues - trying to both prune down the backlog and try to > tag up some issues with "beginner-friendly" etc. > > I will of course work with everyone in the community to build the roadmap > :) > > I don't want to overwhelm the list with an essay, so I'll write up more > about what I'm planning in a blog post, and I discuss it in a bit more > detail on the Airflow Podcast https://soundcloud.com/the-airflow-podcast > out next week. (Also: If you want to be a guest on there and talk about > Airflow get in touch!) > > (Oh, though I am on vacation in May, so don't be surprised if I disappear > for a bit) > > Cheers, > Ash > >
