+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 >
