On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 9:18 AM Robert Bradshaw <rober...@google.com> wrote:
> 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. > Yeah, ideally we can do both. (1) Individual questions at a high high frequency to stackoverf...@beam.apache.org so that folks who are interested in answering such questions (and subscribed to the list) get notified early. (2) Aggregated digests at a low frequency to the dev@ and user@ so that we get more eyeballs into questions that go unanswered. Also this will be a good way to get more upvotes for the correct answers. Thanks, Cham > > > 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 > > > > >
