+1 that existing channels of communication (cassandra-dev slack and mailing lists) should ideally suffice, and I have not seen prohibitive communication in those forums thus far that goes against newcomers. I agree it can be intimidating, but to Bowen's point, the more traffic we see around newcomers in those forums, the more comfortable it gets. I agree starting a new channel is a low effort experiment we can do, but the success depends on finding mentors and the engagement of mentors vs I believe engagement in #cassandra-dev is almost guaranteed given the high number of people in the channel.
Thanks, Sumanth On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 6:47 AM Bowen Song <bo...@bso.ng.invalid> wrote: > As a newcomer (made two commits since October) who has been watching > this mailing list since then, I don't like the idea of a separate > channel for beginner questions. The volume in this mailing list is > fairly low, I can't see any legitimate reason for diverting a portion of > that into another channel, further reducing the volume in the existing > channel and perhaps not creating much volume in the new channel either. > > Personally, I think a clearly written and easy to find community > guideline highlighting that this mailing list is suitable for beginner > questions, and give some suggestions/recommendations on when, where and > how to ask beginner questions would be more useful. > > At the moment because the volume of beginner questions is very very low > in this mailing list, newcomers like me don't feel comfortable asking > questions here. That's not because there's 600 pair of eyes watching > this (TBH, if you didn't mention it, I wouldn't have noticed it), but > because the herd mentality. If not many questions are asked here, most > people won't start doing that. It's all about creating the environment > that makes people feel comfortable asking questions here. > > On 08/11/2021 16:28, Benjamin Lerer wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for > newcomers > > to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600 > > followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for > > newcomers. > > This proposal makes total sense to me. > > > > What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it? > > > > Benjamin > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > >
