To give an example, dev@spark has 3008 subscribers user@spark has 5022 subscribers
Spark is a quite different project, of course, but it shows that a user list can and will attract more subscribers. dev@arrow has 789 subscribers - Wes On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Brian Hulette <hulet...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>
