Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread eliasah
Besides the traffic eventual issue, I don't believe that it would benefit users to get a standalone site. Some great answers are provided by users that aren't spark experts but maybe java, python, aws or even some system experts why do we want to play alone ? We are trying nevertheless the animat

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread Ioannis.Deligiannis
: assaf.mendelson; dev@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Here's a view into the requirements, for example: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/76571/emacs<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__area51.stackexchange.com_proposals_76571

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread Sean Owen
an Owen [via Apache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden > email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=20008&i=0>] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 24, 2016 12:32 PM > > > *To:* Mendelson, Assaf > *Subject:* Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists > > >

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread assaf.mendelson
List] [mailto:ml-node+s1001551n2000...@n3.nabble.com] Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 12:32 PM To: Mendelson, Assaf Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists I don't think there's nearly enough traffic to sustain a stand-alone SE. I helped mod the Data Science SE and

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread Sean Owen
I don't think there's nearly enough traffic to sustain a stand-alone SE. I helped mod the Data Science SE and it's still not technically critical mass after 2 years. It would just fracture the discussion to yet another place. On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 6:52 AM assaf.mendelson wrote: > Sorry to reaw

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-23 Thread assaf.mendelson
[mailto:ml-node+s1001551n19916...@n3.nabble.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 4:33 PM To: Mendelson, Assaf Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Awesome stuff! Thanks Sean! :-) On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 05:57 Sean Owen <[hidden email]> wrote: I updated the wiki to point

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-16 Thread Denny Lee
rk-ContributingbyHelpingOtherUsers) > > > Assaf. > > > > From: Denny Lee [via Apache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden > email] <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=19891&i=0>] > Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 8:52 AM > > > > To:

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-16 Thread Sean Owen
jtp?type=node&node=19891&i=0>] Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 8:52 AM To: Mendelson, Assaf Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Hey Reynold, Looks like we all of the proposed changes into Proposed Community Mailing Lists / StackOverflow Change

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-15 Thread assaf.mendelson
+s1001551n19835...@n3.nabble.com] Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 8:52 AM To: Mendelson, Assaf Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Hey Reynold, Looks like we all of the proposed changes into Proposed Community Mailing Lists / StackOverflow Changes<https://docs.google.com/documen

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-12 Thread Denny Lee
[hidden > email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=19800&i=0>] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 09, 2016 9:54 AM > *To:* Mendelson, Assaf > *Subject:* Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists > > > > Agreed that by simply just moving the questions to SO wil

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-10 Thread Holden Karau
fit. > > Assaf. > > > > *From:* Denny Lee [via Apache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden > email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=19800&i=0>] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 09, 2016 9:54 AM > *To:* Mendelson, Assaf > *Subject:* Re: Handlin

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-09 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
he > community should answer and hard questions which only advanced users > can answer. > > > > Maybe SO isn’t the correct platform for that but even within it we can > try to find a non meta name for spark beginner questions vs. spark > advanced questions. > > Assaf.

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-09 Thread Denny Lee
lack of > > process. It actually requires cultivating a culture change on the > community > > list. > > > > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:11 PM Mendelson, Assaf < > assaf.mendel...@rsa.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> What I am suggesting is basically to fix

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-09 Thread Gerard Maas
er even poorly-asked questions with a link >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> relevant docs. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Sean Owen >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-09 Thread assaf.mendelson
Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Agreed that by simply just moving the questions to SO will not solve anything but I think the call out about the meta-tags is that we need to abide by SO rules and if we were to just jump in and start creating meta-tags, we would be violating at

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-08 Thread Denny Lee
d a non meta name for spark beginner questions vs. spark advanced > questions. > > Assaf. > > > > > > *From:* Denny Lee [via Apache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden > email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=19798&i=0>] > *S

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-08 Thread assaf.mendelson
s and manage it in jira? >> >> >> >> Anyway as I said, the main issue is not user questions (except maybe >> advanced ones) but more for dev questions. It is so easy to get lost in the >> chatter that it makes it very hard for people to learn spark internals… >&

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-08 Thread Michael Segel
arder to manage. >> >> Maybe using special jira tags and manage it in jira? >> >> >> >> Anyway as I said, the main issue is not user questions (except maybe >> advanced ones) but more for dev questions. It is so easy to get lost in the >> chatter that i

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-07 Thread Denny Lee
mailing > >> list B is only for PR and have something like stack overflow for > developer > >> questions (I would even go as far as to have beginner, intermediate and > >> advanced mailing list for users and beginner/advanced for dev). > >> > >> >

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-07 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
;> list B is only for PR and have something >>> like stack overflow for developer >>> >> questions (I would even go as far as to >>> have beginner, intermediate and >>>

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-07 Thread Ricardo Almeida
ser groups once a question has been properly filtered which is > quite common. > > > > PS. Personally, I would not follow any “bespoke/external” process on SO > E.g. down-voting on SO for any other reason that being a bad question as > per SO rules. > > > > > &

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-07 Thread Ioannis.Deligiannis
per SO rules. From: Matei Zaharia [mailto:matei.zaha...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 November 2016 07:45 To: assaf.mendelson Cc: dev@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Even for the mailing list, I'd love to have a short set of instructions on how to submit your

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Matei Zaharia
t; > From: rxin [via Apache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden email] > ] > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 8:33 AM > To: Mendelson, Assaf > Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists > > > > This is an excellent point. If we do go ahead and fea

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread assaf.mendelson
opers List] [mailto:ml-node+s1001551n19757...@n3.nabble.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 8:33 AM To: Mendelson, Assaf Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists This is an excellent point. If we do go ahead and feature SO as a way for users to ask questions more prominently, as someone wh

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Reynold Xin
;>>>>> > get attention, and we'll be back where we started. Putting it in >>>>>> JIRA >>>>>> > doesn't help. I don't think this a problem that is merely down to >>>>>> lack of >>>>>> > process. It actually requires cultivating a c

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> This can easily be done using stack overflow >> tags, however, that would >> >&

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Reynold Xin
res cultivating a culture change on the >>>>> community >>>>> > list. >>>>> > >>>>> > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:11 PM Mendelson, Assaf < >>>>> assaf.mendel...@rsa.com> >>>>> > wrot

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
d > >> probably be harder to manage. > >> > >> Maybe using special jira tags and manage it in jira? > >> > >> > >> > >> Anyway as I said, the main issue is

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Reynold Xin
;> >> >>>> >> What I am suggesting is basically to fix that. >>>> >> >>>> >> For example, we might say that mailing list A is only for voting, >>>> mailing >>>> >> list B is only for PR and h

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Reynold Xin
gt; >> advanced mailing list for users and beginner/advanced for dev). >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> This can easily be done using stack overflow tags, however, that would >>> >> probably be harder to manage. >>> >

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Nicholas Chammas
uld > >> probably be harder to manage. > >> > >> Maybe using special jira tags and manage it in jira? > >> > >> > >> > >> Anyway as I said, the main issue is not user questions (except maybe > >> advanced ones) but more for d

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Ricardo Almeida
ept maybe > >> advanced ones) but more for dev questions. It is so easy to get lost in > the > >> chatter that it makes it very hard for people to learn spark internals… > >> > >> Assaf. > >> > >> > >> > >> From: Sean Owen [m

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Cody Koeninger
people to learn spark internals… >> >> Assaf. >> >> >> >> From: Sean Owen [mailto:so...@cloudera.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 2:07 PM >> To: Mendelson, Assaf; dev@spark.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists &

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Sean Owen
.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 02, 2016 2:07 PM > *To:* Mendelson, Assaf; dev@spark.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists > > > > I think that unfortunately mailing lists don't scale well. This one has > thousands of subscribers with di

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Mendelson, Assaf
questions. It is so easy to get lost in the chatter that it makes it very hard for people to learn spark internals… Assaf. From: Sean Owen [mailto:so...@cloudera.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 2:07 PM To: Mendelson, Assaf; dev@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Sean Owen
I think that unfortunately mailing lists don't scale well. This one has thousands of subscribers with different interests and levels of experience. For any given person, most messages will be irrelevant. I also find that a lot of questions on user@ are not well-asked, aren't an SSCCE ( http://sscce