> people choose a project because it is powerful, useful, fixing > their real issues, rather than having Chinese documentations.
I love it. On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 5:19 PM Sheng Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > I want to share a little experience from Apache SkyWalking, which used to > have dual language documentation, but not anymore for 2 years. > At first, some users may complain about this, and saying it is hard to > understand. If you run a survey to the community, this reason will turn > out. > But with time, you will notice, people are getting used to it, and Google > translation is powerful enough for understanding the document. (the same > story, you said acceptable for not-Chinese-speaker). > > If the APISIX community wants to lower the load of maintaining dual > languages, don't need to have a concern about losing users, because, in > reality, people choose a project because it is powerful, useful, fixing > their real issues, rather than having Chinese documentations. > > Sheng Wu 吴晟 > Twitter, wusheng1108 > > > Ming Wen <[email protected]> 于2021年1月21日周四 下午5:05写道： > > > yes, this is the discuss thread, and mailinglist is the public channel > too. > > welcome everyone join us. > > > > Thanks, > > Ming Wen, Apache APISIX PMC Chair > > Twitter: _WenMing > > > > > > Shuyang Wu <[email protected]> 于2021年1月21日周四 下午5:02写道： > > > > > I'm not so sure about this, maybe we need some feedback from our users > > but > > > not just ourselves. > > > > > > Since the main part of our users (as found in PoweredBy) are from > China, > > I > > > think people could benefit some from Chinese docs. Besides, most of our > > > contributors are from China (although the ratio is becoming less), it > > would > > > not be hard for Chinese contributors to maintain doc in both languages. > > If > > > contributors are not from China, making the translation a > > good-first-issue > > > is also acceptable (as what we're doing right now). Or at first, we > could > > > use the machine-translated version until someone finds it annoying > enough > > > to fix it. > > > > > > Best, > > > Shuyang > > > > > > YuanSheng Wang <[email protected]> 于2021年1月21日周四 下午4:04写道： > > > > > > > agree this, my +1 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:55 PM Ming Wen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > hello, devs, > > > > > APISIX was originally donated to the Apache Foundation by Chinese > > > company > > > > > and developers, so both Chinese and English documents are > maintained. > > > > > > > > > > Now with the rapid growth of features and contributors, maintaining > > two > > > > > documents at the same time will bring additional work to > > contributors. > > > > > > > > > > So I propose to maintain only English documents and discard Chinese > > > > > documents. > > > > > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Ming Wen, Apache APISIX PMC Chair > > > > > Twitter: _WenMing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > *MembPhis* > > > > My GitHub: https://github.com/membphis > > > > Apache APISIX: https://github.com/apache/apisix > > > > > > > > > > -- *MembPhis* My GitHub: https://github.com/membphis Apache APISIX: https://github.com/apache/apisix
