Then let's think further how we can attract users to use mailing list. Any idea on this?
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 4:24 PM Justin Mclean <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > But it is a different story for Dubbo users. > > You should be asking the users to use the mailing list as well. Users > become contributors become committers. > > > What I am worrying is where we could group them all together in one > single place. > > If the user traffic gets too large for this list then you can make a > seperate users@dubbo mailing list > > > 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. > > If they are just chatting about the project that fine but think of this > scenario. A user asks a question and it gets a good answer, the answer > could help out users who haven't asked it but are following the > conversation, if it archived in the mailing list [1] it can help future > users who can search for that answer. On some chat application that may not > be open to everyone or not archives the answer is lost. Or worse the > content placed on it may not be licensed in a way that is open for all to > use. > > Also being a mailing list people tend to think a little more about their > replies and you get higher quality bandwidth, there’s a little less > incidental chatter about pets and the weather. > > > This is a dilemma we are facing today. I believe the fact of IM getting > > popular happens too in Western > > Just because it popular doesn’t mean we use it at the ASF. It also has to > fit in with our values of openness and transparency for instance. > > > 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. > > I think that sort of conversation should be happening on the mailing list. > It not that it’s not allowed it just that if conversations are happening > elsewhere the community isn’t going to grow and attract new committers as > fast as it could. > > > Last but not least, today's traffic in this mailing list is pretty low > > since Dubbo contributors contribute the vast majority. > > Which I have listed as a (minor) concern in the current report to the > board. > > > 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. > > And the language barrier is a difficult issue. I think it find to not post > in English with a google (or other) translation so everyone has some idea > of what is being said. That being said a large number of Apache project > have people who are not native English speakers and it generally works. We > get commits from all over the world all the time. (There’s a web site > showing commits by location I see if I can find it.) > > Thanks, > Justin
