Justin, I am not worrying about using mailing list to communicate among Dubbo contributors. After all it is a relative small group, everyone within it understand the Apache way well.
But it is a different story for Dubbo users. What I am worrying is where we could group them all together in one single place. People need a place to know each other, to learn from each other, to talk about Dubbo. Dubbo users keep asking us what WeChat group we are maintaining for Dubbo. We could ask them nicely, but cannot request them to send email to mailing list, plus, better in English. This is a dilemma we are facing today. I believe the fact of IM getting popular happens too in Western, otherwise we won't see IRC, Gitter, Slack keep coming out. People need casual talk for common interest, even it is a tech topic. We hope the talk can happen in one single place. With regarding to Dubbo contributors, they have need of casual tech talk too. If there's no place allowed, then the tech talk will not happen at all. Of course, if the topic gets official and needs to make decision, we will move it to mailing list. Last but not least, today's traffic in this mailing list is pretty low since Dubbo contributors contribute the vast majority. I really interested to learn any success story to attract users into a mailing list, especially for the peoples who are not native English speakers. Any thought, suggestion? Pls. shine your light on it. Thanks, -Ian. On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:33 PM Justin Mclean <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I suggest you don't use slack or any other instant message as doing will > exclude some people due to the platform used or time zone they are in or > language used. Also these conversations can be hard to search and may not > be archived. > > All decisions need be made in publc on the mailing list and it should be > the primary firm of communication. > > Thanks, > Justin > > On Fri., 7 Sep. 2018, 2:17 pm Ian Luo, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I lean to use Slack for main means of chatting. Dingtalk is popular in > > China, but it is indeed inappropriate for public communication. I agree > we > > should change. > > > > I tried the-asf workspace. It looks like it accepts subscriptions from > > apache committers only. > > > > What about one dedicated workspace for Dubbo? In this way, we could > gather > > both dubbo user and dubbo developer in one single place, and more > > important, all discussions are public. > > > > What do you think? > > > > -Ian. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:33 AM Jerrick Zhu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > hi, community > > > > > > Now, we have some chat groups, which are used to discuss about dubbo, > > such > > > as: > > > > > > * Dingtalk group, nearly 30 people, committers and contributors > > > * WeChat group, contains committers, contributors, and many users > > > > > > I think we need to public these chat groups, so that all people can > join > > > us. > > > > > > Maybe Gitter? or Slack ? > > > > > > Or maybe we can drop the chat, just use the mailing list and github > issue > > > for discuss. > > > > > > Any other suggestions? > > > > > > Sincerely. > > > > > > jerrick > > > > > >
