Thanks for the feedback! So far, the projects on the table are:
1. Improving the Table API/SQL documentation. 2. Improving the documentation about Deployments. 3. Restructuring and standardizing the documentation about Connectors. 4. Finishing the Chinese translation. I think 2. would require a lot of technical knowledge about Flink, which might not be a good fit for GSoD (as discussed last year). As for mentors, we have: - Aljoscha (Table API/SQL) - Till (Deployments) - Stephan also said he'd be happy to participate as a mentor if needed. For the translation project, I'm pulling in the people involved in last year's thread (Jark and Jincheng), as we would need two chinese-speaking mentors. I'll follow up with a draft proposal early next week, once we reach a consensus and have enough mentors (2 per project). Thanks again! Marta On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:53 PM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks for driving this effort Marta. > > I'd be up for mentoring improvements for the deployment section as > described in FLIP-42. > > Cheers, > Till > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 11:20 AM Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > first, excellent that you're driving this, Marta! > > > > By now I have made quite some progress on the FLIP-42 restructuring so > > that is not a good effort for someone to join now. Plus there is also > > [1], which is about incorporating the existing Flink Training material > > into the concepts section of the Flink doc. > > > > What I think would be very good is working on the Table API/SQL > > documentation [2]. We don't necessarily have to take the FLIP as a basis > > but we can, or we can start from a blank slate. I think the current > > structure as well as the content is sub-optimal (not good, really). It > > would be ideal to have someone get to now the system and then write > > documentation for that part of Flink that has both good structure and > > content and nicely guides new users. > > > > I would be very happy to mentor that effort. > > > > Best, > > Aljoscha > > > > [1] > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rea9cbfffd9a1c0ca6f78f7e8c8497d81f32ed4a7b9e7a05d59f3b2e9%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E > > > > [2] > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=127405685 > > > > On 17.04.20 09:21, Robert Metzger wrote: > > > Thanks a lot for volunteering to drive an application for the Flink > > project! > > > > > > Last year, we discussed finishing the chinese translation as a > potential > > > project. I believe there's still a need for this. > > > Since the work on the project starts pretty far in the future > > (September), > > > the translation project is a good fit as well (there's currently no > major > > > effort on the translation, rather a constant flow of PRs, but I don't > > think > > > that is enough to finish the translation). > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 9:15 AM Konstantin Knauf <kna...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Marta, > > >> > > >> Thanks for kicking off the discussion. Aljoscha has recently revived > the > > >> implementation of the FLIP-42 and has already moved things around > quite > > a > > >> bit. [1] > > >> > > >> There are a lot of areas that can be improved of course, but a lot of > > them > > >> require very deep knowledge about the system (e.g. the "Deployment" or > > >> "Concepts" section). One area that I could imagine working well in > such > > a > > >> format is to work on the "Connectors" section. Aljoscha has already > > moved > > >> this to the top-level, but it besides that it has not been touched yet > > in > > >> the course of FLIP-42. The documentation project could be around > > >> restructuring, standardization and generally improving the > > documentation of > > >> our connectors for both Datastream as well as Table API/SQL. > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> > > >> Konstantin > > >> > > >> [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/ > > >> > > >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:11 PM Marta Paes Moreira < > > ma...@ververica.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi, Everyone. > > >>> > > >>> Google is running its Season of Docs [1] program again this year. The > > >> goal > > >>> of the program is to pair open source organizations/projects with > > >>> professional technical writers to improve their documentation. > > >>> > > >>> The Flink community submitted an application in 2019 (led by > > Konstantin) > > >>> [2,3], but was unfortunately not accepted into the program. This > year, > > >> I'm > > >>> volunteering to write and submit the proposal in the upcoming weeks. > To > > >>> achieve this, there are a few things that need to be sorted out in > > >> advance: > > >>> > > >>> - > > >>> *Mentors *Each proposed project idea requires at least two volunteers > > to > > >>> mentor technical writers through the process. *Who would like to > > >>> participate as a mentor*? You can read about the responsibilities > > here > > >>> [4]. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> - > > >>> *Project Ideas *We can submit as many project ideas as we'd like, but > > >> it's > > >>> unlikely that more than 2 are accepted. *What would you consider > a > > >>> priority for documentation improvement*? In my opinion, > > reorganizing > > >> the > > >>> documentation to make it easier to navigate and more accessible > to > > >>> newcomers would be a top priority. You can check > > FLIP-42/FLINK-12639 > > >> [5] > > >>> for improvements that are already under consideration and [6] for > > last > > >>> year's mailing list discussion. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> - *Alternative Organization Administrator* > > >>> I volunteer as an administrator, but Google requires two. *Who > > would > > >>> like to join me as an application administrator*? > > >>> > > >>> The deadline is *May 4th *and the accepted projects would kick-off > the > > >> work > > >>> with technical writers on *September 14th*. Let me know if you have > any > > >>> questions! > > >>> > > >>> Thanks, > > >>> > > >>> Marta > > >>> > > >>> [1] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs > > >>> [2] > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3c789b6187da23ad158df59bbc598543b652e3cfc1010a14e294e16a@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E > > >>> [3] > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Up53jNsLztApn-mP76AB6xWUVGt3nwS9p6xQTiceKXo/edit?usp=sharing > > >>> [4] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/mentor-guide > > >>> [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12639 > > >>> [6] > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3c789b6187da23ad158df59bbc598543b652e3cfc1010a14e294e16a@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> > > >> Konstantin Knauf > > >> > > > > > > > >
