Some good points. @Arthur Wiedmer <arthur.wied...@gmail.com> The Apache mailing list is always the official record and Google indexes it well, so that any previous discussions on the mailing lists are available to future generations. I originally started this thread with the thought of having everyone on the mailing list, but then I heard that people need some sort of near real-time support in an try-fail-ask iterative fashion -- something that is not met by the async nature of mailing lists. This might be for more people setting up Airflow for the first time and hitting some stumbling blocks. We don't want walled gardens for sure, but there seems to be a legitimate ask for near real-time collaboration, so the discussion now is just Gitter vs Slack. Slack does require registering, all be it pretty light-weight, but offers a nice desktop client.
@Bolke de Bruin <bdbr...@gmail.com> I'm concerned about the disruption to the existing community as well. I'm hoping the vote here reveals that concern in numbers. Also, why can't we shutdown the Gitter channel? At the least, we can stop pointing to it. On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 7:55 AM William Horton <william.hor...@compass.com.invalid> wrote: > +1 > > *William Horton* > Backend Engineer > > 90 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor > New York NY 10011 > m: 404.432.8480 > > > > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Ravi Kotecha <kotecha.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > -1 > > > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 2:01 PM Chandu Kavar <ccka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > +1 > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 10:30 AM Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Folks! > > > > In the Apache tradition, I'd like to ask the community to vote on > > > replacing > > > > Gitter with Slack. > > > > > > > > For more information about what was recently discussed, refer to > > > > > > > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8eeb6c46ec431b9158f87022ceaa5e > > ed8dbaaf082c887dae55f86f96@%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E > > > > > > > > If you would like to replace Gitter with Slack, vote +1. If you want > to > > > > keep things they way they are, vote -1. You can also vote 0 if you > > don't > > > > care either way because you wouldn't use either much, preferring to > use > > > the > > > > mailing list instead, which is highly encouraged as it is Apache's > > > official > > > > record. > > > > > > > > The vote will be open for 72 hours and will expire at 8p PT this > > > Saturday. > > > > -s > > > > > > > > P.S. If the community votes for Slack, we could create our own > > workspace > > > > (e.g. airflow.slack.com). > > > > P.P.S. In general, anyone in the community can launch a vote like > this > > > from > > > > time to time. There is no binding/non-binding distinction since we > are > > > not > > > > running an official Apache vote. > > > > > > > > > >
