Agreed. I was concerned about the plan to drop Slack because it was a place users would come to ask questions (for better or worse). I assumed that was because those users were just uncomfortable with mailing lists, but I think Uwe is right, they're probably just uncomfortable with *this* mailing list, where most of the discussion is about development.
Brian On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:52 AM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi Uwe, > > This sounds like a good idea to me. I think we should go ahead and ask > INFRA to set it up. We'll need to add a "Community" landing page on > the website of sorts to explain the mailing lists better. > > - Wes > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Uwe L. Korn <uw...@xhochy.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I would like to create a u...@arrow.apache.org mailing list. Some > people are a bit confused that there is only a dev mailing list. They > interpret this as a mailing list that should be used solely for Arrow > development, not usage questions. This is sadly a psychological barrier for > people to get a bit more involved since we have closed Slack. > > > > What are others thinking about this? > > > > Uwe >
