*I thank Sijie for the comment on my pull request [1]. I’m following up here because I think this is the kind of discussion best suited for the mailing list. As I understand it, Sijie's core objection is,“Currently, the community is trying to make the project blog focus on project updates such as releases, milestones, and etc, to keep it stay focused on the project itself.”I’m relatively new to Apache Pulsar, so I’m not sure if this represents a formal decision by the PMC, or just “the way we’ve done things.” Either way, I hope it's okay to revisit it.In my conversations so far with users and potential users of Pulsar, I have found that our biggest weakness is a perceived lack of maturity. The best way to fix this is to get more visibility on the people who are already out there, successfully using Pulsar to solve interesting problems. “Heavy” articles written up at outlets like InfoQ have their place, but so do smaller posts like this one that can be produced quickly for a large variety of use cases. We need depth *and* breadth. This will let us establish the perception that Pulsar is for everyone, not just “experts.”Incorporating use cases on Pulsar’s own blog lets us take advantage of one of our biggest marketing assets. We want newcomers to get the impression as soon as possible that *obviously*, lots of people use Pulsar successfully. This is also important for attracting new contributors as they see this is something growing and relevant to their interests. If they have to go digging for that information elsewhere, we’ve already lost the attention span of a significant number of potential users and contributors.What does the rest of the community think about this?[1] https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/9463 <https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/9463>*
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:18 PM Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd love to see more content on the Apache Pulsar blog showing how much > traction this project and community have gotten recently. To that end, > I've started collecting quick "five minute interview" use cases and I've > submitted a PR for the first. Looking forward to getting more finished up! > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > @spyced > -- Jonathan Ellis co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced
