Hi Lucas, Thanks for bringing this up. What advantages will Stack Exchange give us above and beyond Stack Overflow?
My only concern is we have an increasing number of things we as a community will be managing (not saying we shouldn't, but just pick and choose which ones): - Github Discussions - Slack - Github Issues - Stack Overflow - Medium & Dev.to Blogs Regards, Kaxil On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 8:07 PM Lucas Fonseca <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello guys. > I have a suggestion for the community support organization. > I was talking with Tomek Urbaszek and he asked me to send it to devlist. > > *Problem:* > Today I see the community is not well supported in terms of FAQs or > problems solving. > New people get frustrated not finding answers to their basic questions in > Slack. > Maaany person has doubts and posts them here in the Slack channels. But > they don't get answers, because: > - it isn't the best channel to get help > - and many doubts are pretty basic (and could be answered with > documentation or with some other question already answered) > > And more experienced users also struggle to find community support because > their questions got lost between so many spammed questions in the Slack > community. Also, we lose track of the questions in the channels and we > don't keep history. > > On other hand, we have the general Stack Overflow that helps a lot in that > sense but is not so "official" as the Airflow channel for such a thing. > The community could develop/grow much faster if had some better approach > for this. > > *Suggestion:* > We could create a community for Airflow in Stack Exchange. > > If we have a community dedicated to Airflow in Stack Exchange, all the > doubts could be better indexed, we would avoid redundant questions and have > a community looking at the quality of the questions/answers. > > This would be pretty helpful to the Airflow Community and help us to grow > faster. > Bonus: Also, the Slack channels would be more objectives and productive. > > > *Related conversations in devlist (sorry I did not know how to continue > the conversation in that threads):* > - Thread 1 > <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5d03a9afc609bcc8eb574a85826820cdd2c46f4075d0c3e3c7c7729d%40%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E> > - Thread 2 > <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf2165ed05f709787e8961c8fce4e53a81c1af5d01ac97575a6cb5efe%40%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E> > - Thread 3 > <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0cc6cda29984da9fc6f1a8c135a608cf049c3f1bdcdb3a659a4e94df%40%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E> > > *Bests,* > *Lucas Fonseca* > Data Engineer > > [image: photo] > > *Atenção*: este email contém informação confidencial. Se você o receber > por engano, por favor, informe-nos e apague-o; não copie ou divulgue seu > conteúdo. > *Warning*: this email contains confidential information. If you have > received it by mistake, please let us know and delete it; do not copy or > disclose its contents. >
