Great feedback. There is an overwhelming interest in moving Gitter to Slack. Just curious: for the folks who set up Slack for other Apache projects, did you go via an Apache Infra ticket?
-s On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:32 PM James Meickle <jmeic...@quantopian.com.invalid> wrote: > I am in the gitter chat most work days and there's always activity. > > I would be fine with switching to permanent retention slack for > searchability but don't see the point of switching without that feature. > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 12:59 Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> wrote: > > > 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 > > >
