Apache Airflow newsletter #03 - December 2020

Apache Airflow newsletter for anyone too busy to read the devlist.
*Apache Airflow newsletter*

*What's new in the project? 🎅🏻 December 2020🎄*

1️⃣ Apache Airflow 2.0 has been released as of *Dec 17th*! Congrats to Tomek
<https://github.com/turbaszek>, Jarek <https://github.com/potiuk>, Kamil
<https://github.com/mik-laj>, Ash <https://www.github.com/ashb>, Kaxil
<https://github.com/kaxil>, Vikram <https://github.com/vikramkoka>, Daniel
<https://github.com/dimberman> and all others for their hard work! 🙇🏻

2️⃣ The Commiters fight with ASF-wide problem of performance and stability
of Github Actions.

3️⃣ *apache-airflow-providers-snowflake had problems with the dependency
which did *bad things <https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/12881>, but
we worked with Snowflake to fix the problem and an update will be available
soon

4️⃣ We are working on the *next major release*
<https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/13230> of
apache-airflow-providers-google, which will include updates of many
libraries to the newer version.

5️⃣ A few issues have been found in the latest release 2.0.0 and we are
preparing to release the next *Airflow 2.0.1*
<https://github.com/apache/airflow/milestone/23> release soon.

*🍕🍻 Apache Airflow events 🍕🍻*

*[PAST EVENTS]*

- Nov 17 - NYC Apache Airflow meetup
<https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Apache-Airflow-Meetup/events/274289245/>

*[FUTURE EVENTS]*

Would you like to hear from Airflow experts on how you can make
contributions to the @ApacheAirflow <https://airflow.apache.org> project?

Register now for the first digital meetup of the year where you can meet
and network with Airflow committers and expert users.

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/airflow-meetup---january

*👏New committers/PMC members 👏*

Xiaodong Deng (@XD-DENG <https://github.com/XD-DENG>) as a new PMC member

Vikram (@vikramkoka <https://github.com/vikramkoka>) Koka as a committer

Xiaodong and Vikram do a lot for our community and we really appreciate
their efforts! 👏

🗒* Apache Airflow survey *🗒

- We would like to encourage you to take part in *Apache Airflow
Community Survey 2020*!
- This survey should not take more than 10 minutes and will help us
understand you and your needs: https://forms.gle/PLVpjrqx5r6v1rw87
- In this year the survey will also help improve the upcoming *Airflow
Summit 2021*!
- If you're interested, you can also have a look at the results of the
previous survey from 2019.

*Are you new to Apache Airflow? *

What's the first base in Apache Airflow? *good-first-issue!*

Feel free to check out what is awaiting you in the good-first-issue section
<https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22>
on Github.

*Gimme more Airflow! *

Interesting blog posts, articles, podcasts and other materials about Apache
Airflow.

1. Ash Berlin-Taylor <https://github.com/ashb>, one of the PMC members,
streams their Airflow development work semi-regularly on
https://twitch.tv/iolobot/ follow to get notified when he goes live
Airflow as part of the process of visualising GitHub’s global community.
2. An opinionated article about Airflow 2.0 strengths and weaknesses
<https://github.blog/2020-12-21-visualizing-githubs-global-community/>
3. Is Apache Airflow 2.0 good enough for current engineering needs?

<https://towardsdatascience.com/is-apache-airflow-2-0-good-enough-for-current-data-engineering-needs-6e152455775c>

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