Success! The mailing list has been created. Send an email to "user-zh-subscr...@flink.apache.org" to subscribe! I've also updated the website with the list: https://flink.apache.org/community.html
I will now also tweet about it, even though I believe it'll be more important to advertise the list on Chinese social media platforms. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:52 AM ZILI CHEN <wander4...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1，sounds good > > Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> 于2019年1月29日周二 上午1:46写道： > > > I'm late to this party but big +1. Great idea! I think this will help > > to better represent the actual Flink community size and increase > > interaction between the English and non-English speaking community. > > :-) > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 6:02 PM jincheng sun <sunjincheng...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > +1，I like the idea very much！ > > > > > > Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org>于2019年1月24日 周四19:15写道： > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > >
