Yes, user@ cannot reach new users, really. Twitter might, if we have enough of adjacent followers to get it in front of the right people. On the other hand, I find testimonials from experience convincing in this case.
Kenn On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 2:59 PM Ahmet Altay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Thomas Weise <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:42 PM Ahmet Altay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We attempted to collect feedback on the mailing lists but did not get >>> much input. From my experience (mostly based on dataflow) there is a >>> sizeable group of users who are less interested in new features and want a >>> version that is stable, that does not have security issues, major data >>> integrity issues etc. In Beam's existing release model that corresponds to >>> the latest release. >>> >>> It would help a lot if we can hear the perspectives of other users who >>> are not present here through the developers who work with them. >>> >> >> Perhaps user@ and Twitter are good ways to reach relevant audience. >> > > We tried user@ before did not get any feedback [1]. Polling on twitter > sounds like a good idea. Unless there is an objection, I can start a poll > with Thomas's proposed text as is on Beam's twitter account. > > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7d890d6ed221c722a95d9c773583450767b79ee0c0c78f48a56c7eba@%3Cuser.beam.apache.org%3E > > >> >> A poll could look like this: >> >> The Beam community is considering LTS (Long Term Support) for selected >> releases. LTS releases would only contain critical bug fixes (security, >> data integrity etc.) and offer an alternative to upgrading to latest Beam >> release with new features. Please indicate your preference for Beam >> upgrades: >> >> 1) Always upgrading to the latest release because I need latest features >> along with bug fixes >> 2) Interested to switch to LTS releases to obtain critical fixes >> 3) Not upgrading (using older release for other reasons) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >
