I think the mailinglists are indexed by Google as well, through various web based mirrors.
SO is good for questions with clear answers, but if a user wants more interactive feedback (with questions back and forth) the user@ list is probably better. Also, people which are experienced with Apache projects are probably expecting a user@ list. I think our current approach of having both will lead to the best user experience: Everybody can use what they like the most. Regarding the Hashjoin exception: Stephan can ask and answer the question himself on SO. Thats a nice way of collecting some points ;) On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks for the info Henry. Then I'll just add some text to the webpage to > make sure people know how to look for old ML answers via Nabble. Should do > the job as well. :-) > > On Saturday, April 18, 2015, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Unfortunately as top level Apache project we can not have official > > discussions outside Apache domains. > > Which means that we still need user@ list as the main mechanism for > > users to ask to communicate and ask questions. > > > > Some Apache projects like Hadoop and Spark also have the community > > monitoring Stackoverflow for questions but still maintain user@ list > > as the official channel for communication for the project > > > > - Henry > > > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org > > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > > > I've been asking myself: how can we make it as easy as possible for > > future > > > users who run into problems to find existing answers? > > > > > > As an example take this answer from Stephan [1]. This is super valuable > > > feedback and a very specific question. Ideally, a new user who runs > into > > > the same problem should find this answer. > > > > > > I think the best way to achieve this is Stack Overflow. There are > > already a > > > couple of questions regarding Flink, but they questions are fragmented > > over > > > user@ and SO. > > > > > > Robert already added a suggested tag to the website recently, but I was > > > wondering whether we should take this a step further and want to > discuss > > > the following: > > > > > > Should we *only* recommend SO for user questions and don't link the > user > > > list at all? > > > > > > For example, the Netty project is doing it that way. This has the > > advantage > > > that 1) there is one conveniently searchable place for user questions, > > and > > > 2) all the SO pros like voting on answers, it is well known etc. On the > > > other hand, you can already search the ML archives with Nabble and what > > > about existing questions/answers? > > > > > > Looking forward to get your feedback. It's also quite possible that > there > > > is no real problem here and that I'm trying to over engineer this. Feel > > > free to tell me. ;-) > > > > > > – Ufuk > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Hash-join-exceeded-exception-td1086.html > > >
