Hi all! I have just received the invitation to the new 7th Nov announcement, but somehow I fell quite disconnected to it. Like in my mind, Meltano was a thing, and now it's something quite different with the same name. I used to think meltano as an open source platform to cover all stages of my own data lifecycle. The new announcement page feels like: Hey, has someone contrated you to build an AI tool for them? Meltano is the easiest way to do this kind of job for them! (maybe there is not such a random channel to talk about this, so please let me know)

Hey César! Meltano is not going anywhere and the new product we’ve been working on (powered by Meltano under the hood) will have a new name and website etc to clearly distinguish the open source technology for data engineers mostly building internal data platforms, from our new managed platform for software engineers building data-powered (AI) products. I promise this will be a lot more clear come Tuesday 🙂 We’re not expecting most Meltano users to have a need for the new product, so we’ll have separate Slack communities, newsletters, etc to make sure people can stay up to date on only the product that’s actually relevant to them. Of course we’ll be sharing the new product announcement here as well because a subset of Meltano users will have a need for the new product, but in general we have no intention of distracting data engineers with news about a different product built for software engineers instead.

HI @douwe_maan I just got the Arch message. That makes quite a lot more sense right now. Thanks for clarifying!