I personally think this would be a nice switch. The ease of searching alone is a worthwhile reason for this switch, which would also make the overall barrier to adoption a little bit lower.
I didn't think about decentralizing user issues before, so I think it's a good thing to mention. To some degree, though, the ease of searching should mitigate this if people are properly cross-referencing as appropriate. But, I'm not entirely sure what this would be problematic for. Aldrin Montana Computer Science PhD Student UC Santa Cruz On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 11:16 AM Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > We discussed briefly on the sync this morning, but I was wondering what > people thought about removing the user@ mailing list in favor of either > Github issues or discussions. We can try to mirror issues to an > appropriate mailing list if archiving for posterity. > > Off the top of my head here are some pros/cons to approaches: > > Pros: > - Github focuses on SEO which makes answers to one-off questions easier to > find. > - Github issues seem to have roughly the same traffic as the user@ > mailing. It would likely have more if we didn't steer people to user@. > > Cons: > - This decentralizes user issues across the Arrow repos. > > > - This is NOT a proposal to use github issues in place of JIRA (for the > languages that are currently using JIRA). > - This is NOT a proposal to make any modification to the dev@ mailing list > (I think centralization here is important). > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Micah >
