https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-16915
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > To give an example, > > dev@spark has 3008 subscribers > user@spark has 5022 subscribers > > Spark is a quite different project, of course, but it shows that a > user list can and will attract more subscribers. dev@arrow has 789 > subscribers > > - Wes > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Brian Hulette <hulet...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Agreed. I was concerned about the plan to drop Slack because it was a place >> users would come to ask questions (for better or worse). I assumed that was >> because those users were just uncomfortable with mailing lists, but I think >> Uwe is right, they're probably just uncomfortable with *this* mailing list, >> where most of the discussion is about development. >> >> Brian >> >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:52 AM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> hi Uwe, >>> >>> This sounds like a good idea to me. I think we should go ahead and ask >>> INFRA to set it up. We'll need to add a "Community" landing page on >>> the website of sorts to explain the mailing lists better. >>> >>> - Wes >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Uwe L. Korn <uw...@xhochy.com> wrote: >>> > Hello all, >>> > >>> > I would like to create a u...@arrow.apache.org mailing list. Some >>> people are a bit confused that there is only a dev mailing list. They >>> interpret this as a mailing list that should be used solely for Arrow >>> development, not usage questions. This is sadly a psychological barrier for >>> people to get a bit more involved since we have closed Slack. >>> > >>> > What are others thinking about this? >>> > >>> > Uwe >>>
