Proposal: Slack App for Better Q&A Memory & Knowledge Sharing

[elbajwa]

Hi team,

My name is Ali. I work as an observability engineer and I enjoy experimenting with tools. I have noticed in this Slack that many questions (upgrade issues, configs, policies, cluster mesh, etc.) get asked repeatedly, often in slightly different wording. Valuable answers from maintainers and contributors sometimes get buried in threads and are hard to find again later.

I would like to propose exploring a lightweight Slack app that could help all community members by:

• Suggesting similar past questions and their answers when a new question is asked.
• Linking directly to the original Slack thread (so credit goes to the contributor who solved it).
• Allowing community members to mark answers as “useful,” making them easier to resurface later.
  Optionally providing a weekly digest of “most asked questions” to help maintainers spot recurring pain points.

This could reduce repeated questions, highlight contributors’ expertise, and make it easier for newcomers to self-serve answers before asking.

I want to start this discussion here to understand if:
The community feels this would add value.
There are concerns about Slack app limits / tradeoffs.
We should start with a small pilot (maybe one channel like #ebpf or #kubernetes) to evaluate.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this and see if there’s interest, I’d be happy to share a simple prototype and work with maintainers to make sure it benefits the whole community.

Thanks!
Ali