Thank you all, for chiming in! I like the ideas suggested to update the website, I am also +1 for an update the the main image and make sure we show. Maybe something like [1], which would also help to increase SQL visibility. I guess that would be a bit of a bigger effort, and I would kick off that bigger discussion in a few days or so.
Until then, as an immediate "band aid", I would then add these here (unless there are concerns): - What is "Stateful Functions"? link - Documentation -> Stateful Functions Docs - StateFun on GitHub Best, Stephan [1] https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ABxm14umFhJOXFQ&cid=E2B4A3561C93FA7B&id=E2B4A3561C93FA7B%213535&parId=E2B4A3561C93FA7B%21342&o=OneUp On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:39 AM Zhijiang <wangzhijiang...@aliyun.com.invalid> wrote: > Thanks for launching this discussion @Stephan! > > +1 for the idea of linking stateful functions in Flink website. It is time > to increase the exposure of this secret weapon for attracting more > attentions. > It is benefit for interested users to try it out in desired scenarios and > also benefit for developing it well. > > > Best, > Zhijiang > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > From:Hequn Cheng <he...@apache.org> > Send Time:2020 Mar. 11 (Wed.) 15:36 > To:dev <dev@flink.apache.org> > Subject:Re: [DISCUSS] Link Stateful Functions from the Flink Website > > Hi, > > Thanks a lot for raising the discussion @Stephan. > +1 to increase the visibilities of the Stateful Functions. > > Another option I'm think is adding a section(named Stateful Functions or > Flink Projects?) > under the "Latest Blog Posts". The advantage is we can add a picture and > some descriptions here. > A picture may attract more attention from the users when he/she visit the > website. > The picture can be the same one in [1]. > > In the future, if we have multiple Flink individual projects, we can also > turn the section into a Table list > to expose all of them. > > What do you think? > > Best, > Hequn > > [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-statefun-docs-master/ > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:13 PM Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai <tzuli...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > +1 on the suggestion to add "What is Stateful Functions" to the left > > navigation bar. > > That might also mean it would be nice to have a slight rework to the main > > image on the website, illustrating the use cases of Flink (this one [1]). > > On the image it does mention "Event-Driven Applications", but there's > > somewhat missing a more direct connection from that term to the Stateful > > Functions project. > > > > As for what the "What is Stateful Functions?" button directs to, maybe > that > > should point to a general concepts page. Initially, we can begin with the > > README contents on the project repo [2]. > > As for the actual Statefun documentation link [3], I think we should link > > that from an item in the "Documentation" pull-down list. > > > > One last thing to increase visibility of the Statefun project just a bit > > more: > > There's a "Flink on Github" button on the very bottom of the navigation > > bar. > > What do you think about adding a "Flink Stateful Functions on Github" > > button there as well? > > > > Cheers, > > Gordon > > > > [1] > > > > > https://github.com/apache/flink-web/blob/asf-site/img/flink-home-graphic.png > > [2] https://github.com/apache/flink-statefun/blob/master/README.md > > [3] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-statefun-docs-master/ > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 8:29 PM Yu Li <car...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > +1 on adding a "What is Stateful Functions" link below the "What is > > Apache > > > Flink" entry and integrating into the Flink docs gradually (instead of > > > hiding it behind until fully integrated). > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Yu > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 19:33, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > > > I think it would be nice to mention Stateful Function on the Flink > > > website. > > > > At the moment, Stateful Functions is very hard to discover, and with > > the > > > > first release of it under Apache Flink, it would be a good time to > > change > > > > that. > > > > > > > > My proposal would be to add a "What is Stateful Functions?" below the > > > "What > > > > is Apache Flink" entry in the sidenav, and point it to > > > > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-statefun-docs-master/ > > > > It is not ideal, yet, but it may serve as an intermediate solution > > until > > > we > > > > can make more involved attempt to rethink the website (for example to > > > also > > > > make SQL more prominent than it currently is). > > > > > > > > An alternative idea was to link it only from the docs, but this would > > be > > > a > > > > bit hidden, in my opinion. > > > > > > > > As a bit of background: > > > > - The Stateful Functions docs a are a separate doc tree at the > > moment, > > > > because the code (with the docs) is for now in a separate repository > > and > > > > separately versioned/releases. > > > > - The layout of the Stateful Functions docs is still in the > > > old/original > > > > format, from when it was an "outside Flink" project. > > > > - There are plans to migrate this to the same stack as the Flink > docs > > > and > > > > make it look consistent, but it would be nice to have the docs > > available > > > > in the meantime already. > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > Stephan > > > > > > > > > > >
