Hi all I want to share a little experience from Apache SkyWalking, which used to have dual language documentation, but not anymore for 2 years. At first, some users may complain about this, and saying it is hard to understand. If you run a survey to the community, this reason will turn out. But with time, you will notice, people are getting used to it, and Google translation is powerful enough for understanding the document. (the same story, you said acceptable for not-Chinese-speaker).
If the APISIX community wants to lower the load of maintaining dual languages, don't need to have a concern about losing users, because, in reality, people choose a project because it is powerful, useful, fixing their real issues, rather than having Chinese documentations. Sheng Wu 吴晟 Twitter, wusheng1108 Ming Wen <wenm...@apache.org> 于2021年1月21日周四 下午5:05写道： > yes, this is the discuss thread, and mailinglist is the public channel too. > welcome everyone join us. > > Thanks, > Ming Wen, Apache APISIX PMC Chair > Twitter: _WenMing > > > Shuyang Wu <shuya...@apache.org> 于2021年1月21日周四 下午5:02写道： > > > I'm not so sure about this, maybe we need some feedback from our users > but > > not just ourselves. > > > > Since the main part of our users (as found in PoweredBy) are from China, > I > > think people could benefit some from Chinese docs. Besides, most of our > > contributors are from China (although the ratio is becoming less), it > would > > not be hard for Chinese contributors to maintain doc in both languages. > If > > contributors are not from China, making the translation a > good-first-issue > > is also acceptable (as what we're doing right now). Or at first, we could > > use the machine-translated version until someone finds it annoying enough > > to fix it. > > > > Best, > > Shuyang > > > > YuanSheng Wang <membp...@apache.org> 于2021年1月21日周四 下午4:04写道： > > > > > agree this, my +1 > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:55 PM Ming Wen <wenm...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > hello, devs, > > > > APISIX was originally donated to the Apache Foundation by Chinese > > company > > > > and developers, so both Chinese and English documents are maintained. > > > > > > > > Now with the rapid growth of features and contributors, maintaining > two > > > > documents at the same time will bring additional work to > contributors. > > > > > > > > So I propose to maintain only English documents and discard Chinese > > > > documents. > > > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ming Wen, Apache APISIX PMC Chair > > > > Twitter: _WenMing > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > *MembPhis* > > > My GitHub: https://github.com/membphis > > > Apache APISIX: https://github.com/apache/apisix > > > > > >
