Big +1 on this, it will indeed help Chinese speaking users a lot. fudian.fd <fudian...@alibaba-inc.com>于2019年1月24日 周四20:18写道：
> +1. I noticed that many folks from China are requesting the JIRA > permission in the past year. It reflects that more and more developers from > China are using Flink. A Chinese oriented mailing list will definitely be > helpful for the growth of Flink in China. > > > > 在 2019年1月24日，下午7:42，Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> 写道： > > > > +1, a very nice idea > > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:41 PM Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> Thanks for your response. > >> > >> You are right, I'm proposing "user...@flink.apache.org" as the mailing > >> list's name! > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:37 PM Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai < > tzuli...@apache.org> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Robert, > >>> > >>> Thanks a lot for starting this discussion! > >>> > >>> +1 to a user-zh@flink.a.o mailing list (you mentioned -zh in the > title, > >>> but > >>> -cn in the opening email content. > >>> I think -zh would be better as we are establishing the tool for general > >>> Chinese-speaking users). > >>> All dev@ discussions / JIRAs should still be in a single English > mailing > >>> list. > >>> > >>> From what I've seen in the DingTalk Flink user group, there's quite a > bit > >>> of activity in forms of user questions and replies. > >>> It would really be great if the Chinese-speaking user community can > >>> actually have these discussions happen in the Apache mailing lists, > >>> so that questions / discussions / replies from developers can be > indexed > >>> and searchable. > >>> Moreover, it'll give the community more insight in how active a > >>> Chinese-speaking contributor is helping with user requests, > >>> which in general is a form of contribution that the community always > >> merits > >>> a lot. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Gordon > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:15 PM Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hey all, > >>>> > >>>> I would like to create a new user support mailing list called " > >>>> user...@flink.apache.org" to cater the Chinese-speaking Flink > >> community. > >>>> > >>>> Why? > >>>> In the last year 24% of the traffic on flink.apache.org came from the > >>> US, > >>>> 22% from China. In the last three months, China is at 30%, the US at > >> 20%. > >>>> An additional data point is that there's a Flink DingTalk group with > >> more > >>>> than 5000 members, asking Flink questions. > >>>> I believe that knowledge about Flink should be available in public > >> forums > >>>> (our mailing list), indexable by search engines. If there's a huge > >> demand > >>>> in a Chinese language support, we as a community should provide these > >>> users > >>>> the tools they need, to grow our community and to allow them to follow > >>> the > >>>> Apache way. > >>>> > >>>> Is it possible? > >>>> I believe it is, because a number of other Apache projects are running > >>>> non-English user@ mailing lists. > >>>> Apache OpenOffice, Cocoon, OpenMeetings, CloudStack all have > >> non-English > >>>> lists: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ > >>>> One thing I want to make very clear in this discussion is that all > >>> project > >>>> decisions, developer discussions, JIRA tickets etc. need to happen in > >>>> English, as this is the primary language of the Apache Foundation and > >> our > >>>> community. > >>>> We should also clarify this on the page listing the mailing lists. > >>>> > >>>> How? > >>>> If there is consensus in this discussion thread, I would request the > >> new > >>>> mailing list next Monday. > >>>> In case of discussions, I will start a vote on Monday or when the > >>>> discussions have stopped. > >>>> Then, we should put the new list on our website and start promoting it > >>> (in > >>>> said DingTalk group and on social media). > >>>> > >>>> Let me know what you think about this idea :) > >>>> > >>>> Best, > >>>> Robert > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> PS: In case you are wondering what ZH stands for: > >>>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ZH > >>>> > >>> > >> > > -- Best, Kurt
