+1 This not only helps Chinese users but also helps the community to collect more feedback and scenarios.
> 在 2019年1月25日，上午2:29，Zhang, Xuefu <xuef...@alibaba-inc.com> 写道： > > +1 on the idea. This will certainly help promote Flink in China industries. > On a side note, it would be great if anyone in the list can help source > ideas, bug reports, and feature requests to dev@ list and/or JIRAs so as to > gain broader attention. > > Thanks, > Xuefu > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > From:Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> > Sent At:2019 Jan. 24 (Thu.) 05:32 > To:dev <dev@flink.apache.org> > Subject:Re: [DISCUSS] Start a user...@flink.apache.org mailing list for the > Chinese-speaking community? > > Thanks Robert! > I think this is a very good idea. > +1 > > Fabian > >> Am Do., 24. Jan. 2019 um 14:09 Uhr schrieb Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com>: >> >> +1 >> >> Piotr Nowojski <pi...@da-platform.com> 于2019年1月24日周四 下午8:38写道： >> >>> +1, good idea, especially with that many Chinese speaking contributors, >>> committers & users :) >>> >>> Piotrek >>> >>>> On 24 Jan 2019, at 13:20, Kurt Young <ykt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Best Regards >> >> Jeff Zhang >>
