Confluence and Jira are slow regardless of the distance between you and the data center. They’re bloated. 😅
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 18:59, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi, > > What has seem to worked on some of the non-English background projects > I’ve mentored: > - Encourage to PPMC to ask people to communicate in English if they can > - Encourage to PPMC to ask people to provide a translation along with > their original email either by someone else or a machine translation (Note > that google services like google translate are not generally available in > China) > - Encourage the PPMC to translate or ask others to translate any non > English messages into English > > The turning point is generally when they realise that they can get a more > diverse set of contributors by having enlist communication in English. > > From what I’ve seen this seems to mostly work, there does seem however to > be a lot of traffic off list on instant messaging in these projects, but > that’s not unique to podlings originating from China. It's where users > general go to ask questions in slack or gitter or the like. > > The users situation is also usually resolved (in part) by having two web > sites one in English and one in Chinese. This also brings up the issue of > the great firewall and access speeds from within China. Infra are working > with a couple of projects on this using CDNs so their site are fast and > accessable. > > As an aside speed to other SF services (like Confluence and JIRA) can be > slow when accessed outside the US or Europe, but that’s probably not our > issue to fix. > > Thanks, > Justin > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
