Till, Yun, etal, Now that we've established the community's interest in engaging with this content, I've started a new thread on the dev list for discussion of the details.
I've said a bit there already regarding ongoing maintenance, and CI for the exercises. Best, David On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 4:23 PM Yun Tang <myas...@live.com> wrote: > +1 for this idea. > > I think there would existed many details to discuss once community ready > to host the materials: > > 1. How to judge whether a lab exercise should be added? There would be > many user cases for streaming computation, I think we should need a outline > for the knowledge map of Flink and contributors could choose those not > touched to add or polish existing labs, however, the latter one could be > more difficult to judge. > 2. How to judge a PR could be merged? I think no CI system could be > used for adding exercises, we need some principles or tools to ensure the > exercise could be run well as expected. > > Best > Yun Tang > ------------------------------ > *From:* Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 15, 2020 16:08 > *To:* dev <d...@flink.apache.org> > *Cc:* Eduardo Winpenny Tejedor <eduardo.winpe...@gmail.com>; Seth Wiesman > <sjwies...@gmail.com>; Niels Basjes <ni...@basjes.nl>; user < > user@flink.apache.org> > *Subject:* Re: [PROPOSAL] Contribute training materials to Apache Flink > > Hi David, > > making the training materials available on flink.apache.org would > increase the reach and improve its visibility. Since this is very helpful > material for our users +1 for contributing the training material. > > If we decide not maintain different versions, then we might be able to > highlight features which are only available in/since a certain version. > > One thing the community should be aware of is that we also need to > maintain the training material. Maybe you could share with us how much > effort this usually is when updating the training material for a new Flink > version, David? > > Cheers, > Till > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 10:31 PM David Anderson <da...@ververica.com> > wrote: > > Yes, the training materials could become part of the docs, as you suggest. > The reason why I'm somewhat resistant to this idea is that the > documentation is versioned. It will be easier to maintain the training > content and its exercises and examples if we only have to be concerned with > having one version (for the latest Flink release), and I don't really see > any added value to the community in keeping older versions of the training > online. > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 8:46 PM Eduardo Winpenny Tejedor < > eduardo.winpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +1 to the idea, David regarding your question, could it go in a > > quickstart/get started with Flink section? Next to or replacing the > current > > 'Getting started' section? > > > > On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, 22:11 Seth Wiesman, <sjwies...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi David, > >> > >> +1 to add to the project. > >> > >> I agree that flink.apache.org and flink playgrounds respectively are > the > >> best places to host this content. > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 2:56 PM Niels Basjes <ni...@basjes.nl> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Sounds like a very nice thing to have as part of the project ecosystem. > >>> > >>> Niels > >>> > >>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:10 PM David Anderson <da...@ververica.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Dear Flink Community! > >>>> > >>>> For some time now Ververica has been hosting some freely available > >>>> Apache > >>>> Flink training materials at https://training.ververica.com. This > >>>> includes > >>>> tutorial content covering the core concepts of the DataStream API, and > >>>> hands-on exercises that accompany those explanations. > >>>> > >>>> Website: https://training.ververica.com > >>>> Website repo: https://github.com/dataArtisans/flink-training > >>>> Exercises: repo: > https://github.com/ververica/flink-training-exercises > >>>> > >>>> We would like to contribute this training content to Apache Flink. By > >>>> doing > >>>> so, we hope to make it even easier for folks to get started with > Flink. > >>>> Especially during this time when so many are working from home, we'd > >>>> like > >>>> to get this self-paced training course out where more people will see > >>>> it. > >>>> > >>>> If the community wants these training materials, then this also raises > >>>> the > >>>> question of where to put them. We are thinking it would be best to > >>>> integrate the website content into flink.apache.org, and to add the > >>>> exercises to flink-playgrounds -- but these points can be discussed > >>>> separately once we've established that the community wants this > content. > >>>> > >>>> Looking forward to hearing what you think! > >>>> > >>>> Best regards, > >>>> David > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, > >>> > >>> Niels Basjes > >>> > >> > >
