Hi folks, Thanks for the comments here.
I created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-23616 to request Apache INFRA to create a new email list. I'll update this thread when INFRA comments on the feasibility of this. Thanks, Cham On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 6:35 PM Ahmet Altay <al...@google.com> wrote: > +1 to this idea. > > I think both options are reasonable. At the same time I also agree with > checking with infra first on the feasibility of creating another mailing > list. > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:00 AM Chamikara Jayalath <chamik...@google.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> 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. >> > > As an anecdotal data point: Google as a company has an internal Q&A site > and creating a similar mailing list had a noticeable impact on the number > of questions answered. It was a good way to include the broader community > as well. That said, I do not know if this would similarly apply to stack > overflow or not. > > >> >> (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 >>> > >>> > >>> >>
