For a while now, we have had an Airflow Gitter account. Though this seemed like a good idea initially, I'd like to hear from the community if anyone gets value of out it. I don't believe any of the committers spend any time on Gitter.
Early on, the initial committers tried to be available on it, but soon found it impossible to be available on all the timezones in which we had users. Furthermore, Gitter notoriously sucks at making previously answered questions discoverable. Also, the single-threaded nature of Gitter essentially makes it confusing to debug/discuss more than on topic at a time. The community seems to be humming along by relying on the Apache mailing lists, which don't suffer the downside listed above. Hence, as newbies join Apache Airflow, they likely hop onto Gitter. Are they getting value from it? If not, perhaps we are doing them a disservice and should consider just deleting it. Thoughts welcome. -s
