On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 5:15 AM Alexey Romanenko <aromanenko....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good point about unanswered SO questions. +1 that we need to improve a > situation there. > > Yes, we may try to stream them to a new dedicated list but it will require > people here to subscribe to and check regularly one more list which perhaps > won’t be so efficient as well.
I view the value of a new list as making it easy to choose to subscribe or not, and being able to respond to questions as they come in. You're right it's less useful for people who manually check lists rather than get them in their inbox. > I believe that a digest of the N latest unanswered questions to dev@ (or to > user@? or both?) every 3-4 days should be a better option. We could do this too. Ideally a list of all recent questions (answered or not, answers can be improved and voted on) if that's technically feasible. IIRC, the current rate is around 10-20 questions a week, so not huge, but still non-trivial. > On 17 Aug 2022, at 04:42, Chamikara Jayalath via dev <dev@beam.apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi folks, > > It seems like many of the questions posted to StackOverflow with the > apache-beam tag [1] go unanswered or take more than they should to receive an > acceptable answer. > > What do you all think about creating a new mailing list, > stackoverf...@beam.apache.org (assuming Apache Infra is OK with this and it's > technically feasible to do so), where notifications regarding such questions > will be forwarded to ? > > This should allow folks who are interested in answering related questions to > get notified early. Hopefully getting more eyeballs on these questions will > increase the response rate (and the quality of the answers). > > Another option might be to post such notifications (or aggregations) to dev@ > but this might unnecessarily spam all members of the dev list. > > Thanks, > Cham > > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apache-beam > >
