I see no specific benchmark defined for justification of a user@ list.
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html#template-mailing-lists "If this project is new to open source, then starting with these minimum lists is the best approach. The initial focus needs to be on recruiting new developers. Early adopters are potential developers. As momentum is gained, the community may decide to create commit and user lists as they become necessary." "New mailing lists can be added <http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-contact> by a VOTE <http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html> on the Podling list." http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MailingListOptions "The ASF encourages shunting user-discussion traffic to the dev@ list at first for the sake of community building. However, projects with sustained high volume on their dev lists may request a separate user@ list." All of this phrasing is qualitative, not quantitative, so the Apex community is free to decide via a VOTE if it wants to add a user@ list. In my own opinion, I think a user@ list is justified. The level of activity on the dev@ list is quite high now, even surpassing many of the top-level projects I follow. My only other recommendation would be to continue to watch for signs of potential new contributors in the user@ list threads. Steady users have a vested interest in the quality of the product, so they are often a good pool for patches, documentation improvements, and of course helping respond to fellow users' questions. --Chris Nauroth On 11/17/15, 4:30 PM, "Amol Kekre" <[email protected]> wrote: >Apache Apex community is growing steadily. We now have over 700 folks on >our meetups and over 1000 following ApacheApex twitter handle. I am trying >to see if we can get them on apache email forum, where they can discuss >their use cases etc. The issue with asking them to be on dev@apex is that >they may not want to be on dev. Most of them will be more on users side >(current or future users) and may be more comfortable with users@apex... > >Is there a guideline on when to create users@apex... forum? >Does Apache Apex need to wait till it is a top level project? > >Thks, >Amol
