Revitalizing The Community

[barakmich]

Hey all,

So you may have noticed some changes lately. After some months of inactivity -- my fault, to be sure, and for that I apologize -- we're getting this ball rolling again.

For starters, the folks at Google have kindly helped me spin Cayley out into a community namespace: github.com/cayleygraph. I tagged and built 0.5.0 from the latest (SQL support) as a nice way to mark the starting point of the new namespace. We've got some active contributors now who can, finally, also commit things and increase the bus factor such that if I'm sidelined again, the project need not grind to a halt. We're going to start having weekly sync-ups to keep aligned; these may be short, but at least they'll be consistent.

Secondly, we've got a community site now, hosted by the nice folks at packet.net. It needs some work, but https://cayley.io is no longer just a redirect to Github, but can stand as a host for content related to Cayley. The content lives on Github as well, in the new namespace.

Relatedly, this mailing list is to be deprecated and is migrating to a discussion board, https://discourse.cayley.io. The threads from this list have been imported already, and it's a lot more friendly to use than Google Groups. You can sign in with Github so you don't need to create yet-another-account, and if you still prefer email as your flow, it's easy to set up the subscriptions. The goal is to reach a bigger community of people where they'd prefer to live (likely in the browser). 

For that matter, #cayley on Freenode is fairly active. IRC is a good old standby (and there are decent web clients, eg, IRCCloud) and, importantly, it's not yet-another-Slack-channel.

So yeah, that's the update on "how to communicate with Cayley community". In short:

* https://discourse.cayley.io

* #cayley

* Github PRs & Issues

As for near-term upcoming work, @dennwc has written a lot of code and been keeping up an active fork. We're going to incorporate large parts of that back into mainline moving forward, and then on to further great things!

The project's not dead, it was just resting. ;) I'm still here, and now I've got a little help, and can give others the power to help out too. We've got a good thing here; I've even used in in prod in the past year and I've heard great stories on how people have been successful with it. 

We need your help, of course. As we build a community for Cayley, we're building an open community for graphs. Docs, blog posts, discussions -- there's now room for all these, as well as the codebase, naturally.

Let's do this!

--Barak