Thanks everybody for your feedback and comments. I will now request the creation of the mailing list, and raise a PR for updating the Flink website with the info.
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 8:43 AM Becket Qin <becket....@gmail.com> wrote: > +1. Great idea! > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:02 AM Shaoxuan Wang <wshaox...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > +1. Looking forward to it. > > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 7:41 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
