On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:30 PM Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an idea that I would love to get feedback on to see if it makes > sense, feasible, has been tried, is currently being done by somebody, > etc. > > My example is based on Apache Solr, but I think it may affect a lot of > Apache projects. We are all giants offering shoulders to somebody > else.... > > When our project releases the next version, upstream projects may fall > behind. Or something may break for them (not too often fortunately). > Or there is a cool feature they may want to use but not sure how and > have a complicated mix of user and super-technical expertise. For us, > upstream projects would be Apache Camel, NiFi, ManifoldCF, Nutch, etc. > And Solr would be upstream to Calcite, OpenNLP, Tika, ZooKeeper, etc. > > We have Dev and User mailing lists, Jiras, etc, but they are all > rather high volume and are among peers. > > Would it make sense to have a mailing list where committers of > upstream projects could ask questions related to their implementation > of API, interface, feature dependency, etc? The list would need to be > backed by a couple of primary project committers (preferably with a > wide rather than deep feature knowledge) that can explain new > features, translate the jargon, help troubleshoot the failures, etc. > > Do people think it would be useful and/or have examples for me to > clarify this and figure out whether/how this should exist? > > Regards, > Alex. >
Wouldn't these type of questions also be beneficial for general users? I see your scenario more like advanced users versus regular users, but I also see regular users becoming advanced users at some point (but probably in a smaller percentage). -- Luciano Resende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
