Greetings Barber, Christopher. I had an idea to move out some discussions, covering Java and Scala API, to Facebook. So if somewhere exists a local JUG or Scala user group - they could reflect the topic of discussion. But background stuff could take place on mailing lists, Slack, forum, whatever. The reverse mechanism could be used to involve new committers, as well (so they would appear as presented newcomers, as for contributions).
Regards Ivan On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Barber, Christopher < christopher.bar...@analog.com> wrote: > I don't understand why you would want a users mailing list when you > already have discussion forums. Users that want to be notified of new posts > on the forum can configure their notification preferences appropriately. > The traffic on the forums is already pretty low. I would think you would > not want to dilute that further. > > Christopher > > On 6/18/18, 1:27 PM, "Jim Jagielski" <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > users@ mailing lists have great societal advantages that one > shouldn't ignore... > > And it's not like this is the only project with "multiple" > communication choices for users. Most, if not all, projects have users@in > addition to such supplemental methods as IRC channels, a forum, etc... It's > about making it easy to have as many users as possible and as many > potential ways for users to communicate. It's not confusing; it's > empowering :) > > > On Jun 18, 2018, at 1:19 PM, Tianqi Chen <tqc...@cs.washington.edu> > wrote: > > > > The problem of having multiple separate channels of communication is > that > > users get confused, and the cost of maintenance goes up(people have > to > > watch both). As the current community was at discuss forum and many > users > > prefer it, having a mail-list is only a burden we will bring > > > > Tianqi > > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> > wrote: > > > >> IMO, that is the wrong way to look at it. > >> > >> A users@ mailing list is a great, easy, low-cost and low-overhead > way of > >> *increasing* the user community and providing an extra level of > support. > >> Unless there is "strong evidence" that this is NOT the case, I would > >> recommend we create the list. > >> > >>> On Jun 16, 2018, at 12:28 AM, Tianqi Chen < > tqc...@cs.washington.edu> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> So unless there is a strong evidence that our community users > prefers the > >>> mail-list, I would recommend we keep the current way > >>> > >>> Tianqi > >>> > >>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 9:25 PM, Sergio Fernández < > wik...@apache.org> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Are we targeting just Seattle as our community? I really hope we > are > >>>> thinking a bit beyond that... > >>>> > >>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 21:22 Tianqi Chen <tqc...@cs.washington.edu > > > >> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I remember last time during the mxnet meetup in Seattle, we did a > >> survey, > >>>>> and most users preferred the current discuss forum. So I would > say we > >>>> stick > >>>>> with that given the user community prefers that > >>>>> > >>>>> Tianqi > >>>>> > >>>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 9:13 PM, Sergio Fernández < > wik...@apache.org> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Then, if everybody agree, let's request the mailing list > creation to > >>>>> INFRA > >>>>>> ;-) > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Marco, I wouldn't do that. Typically developers are also > subscribed > >>>>> there, > >>>>>> since they may be the most informed people for answering users' > >>>>> questions. > >>>>>> But the topics discussed there may not be of the interest for > pure > >>>>>> development purposes. Some discussions will jump from users@ > to dev@, > >>>>> but > >>>>>> at a different level. So I wouldn't forward one mailing list to > the > >>>>> other. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 21:01 Marco de Abreu > >>>>>> <marco.g.ab...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> I think nobody was opposed to it in the past, right? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I'd propose that all emails automatically get copied to dev@ > to > >>>> ensure > >>>>>>> high > >>>>>>> visibility initially. What do you think? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Sebastian <s...@apache.org> schrieb am Fr., 15. Juni 2018, > 20:51: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I have already proposed this many times in the past and would > >>>>> strongly > >>>>>>>> encourage it. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> -s > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On 15.06.2018 21:56, Sergio Fernández wrote: > >>>>>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> is there any good reason why the podling doesn't have a > users@ > >>>>>> mailing > >>>>>>>> list > >>>>>>>>> yet? > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Honestly speaking, I'm not a big fan of the other tools the > >>>> podling > >>>>>> is > >>>>>>>>> using. Slack and Web forums a cool tools, and I used them a > lot > >>>> in > >>>>>>> other > >>>>>>>>> contexts. But when it comes to transparency and community, > >>>> mailing > >>>>>>> lists > >>>>>>>>> play a crucial role in the Apache Way. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Users are the most important asset a project can have. Even > more > >>>>> than > >>>>>>>>> developers, believe me. So I think it's time to create a > users@ > >>>>>>> mailing > >>>>>>>>> list for to helping MXNet grow its community beyong the core > >>>> team. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Cheers, > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > > > > >
