Whatever you do, make sure to list all these information sources in one
easy-to-find place. For instance, it may not be very obvious to anyone that
they can read the dev mailing list on lists.apache.org. It is bad if users
aren't even aware that other channels exist.
On 6/18/18, 2:45 PM, "Yasser Zamani" <yasser.zam...@live.com on behalf of
yasserzam...@apache.org> wrote:
On 6/18/2018 9:18 PM, Jim Jagielski 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.
As an already Apache Committer of Struts, I also prefer mail list like Jim.
I fell in love with MXNet and I'm still learning hard to being able to
have contributions one day. It was somehow hard for me to also register
and daily monitor another system (your user forum). My feel was same as
your current feel about a new mail list, but, I remembered one rule in
Apache Way: "At Apache, deciders are who do the work". And as I didn't
have any contribution till that time, then I thought I must respect your
decision, so I registered there!
However, I personally still recommend sticking together with Apache
INFRA under Apache Way umbrella as much as possible. I think these help
us to standardize things, understanding each other better and finally
get a graduation from Apache Incubator. Anyway, finally, you who have
done or do the work, are deciders :)
Best Regards.
