Thanks for your response. You are right, I'm proposing "user...@flink.apache.org" as the mailing list's name!
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:37 PM Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai <tzuli...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks a lot for starting this discussion! > > +1 to a user-zh@flink.a.o mailing list (you mentioned -zh in the title, > but > -cn in the opening email content. > I think -zh would be better as we are establishing the tool for general > Chinese-speaking users). > All dev@ discussions / JIRAs should still be in a single English mailing > list. > > From what I've seen in the DingTalk Flink user group, there's quite a bit > of activity in forms of user questions and replies. > It would really be great if the Chinese-speaking user community can > actually have these discussions happen in the Apache mailing lists, > so that questions / discussions / replies from developers can be indexed > and searchable. > Moreover, it'll give the community more insight in how active a > Chinese-speaking contributor is helping with user requests, > which in general is a form of contribution that the community always merits > a lot. > > Cheers, > Gordon > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:15 PM Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > I would like to create a new user support mailing list called " > > user...@flink.apache.org" to cater the Chinese-speaking Flink community. > > > > Why? > > In the last year 24% of the traffic on flink.apache.org came from the > US, > > 22% from China. In the last three months, China is at 30%, the US at 20%. > > An additional data point is that there's a Flink DingTalk group with more > > than 5000 members, asking Flink questions. > > I believe that knowledge about Flink should be available in public forums > > (our mailing list), indexable by search engines. If there's a huge demand > > in a Chinese language support, we as a community should provide these > users > > the tools they need, to grow our community and to allow them to follow > the > > Apache way. > > > > Is it possible? > > I believe it is, because a number of other Apache projects are running > > non-English user@ mailing lists. > > Apache OpenOffice, Cocoon, OpenMeetings, CloudStack all have non-English > > lists: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ > > One thing I want to make very clear in this discussion is that all > project > > decisions, developer discussions, JIRA tickets etc. need to happen in > > English, as this is the primary language of the Apache Foundation and our > > community. > > We should also clarify this on the page listing the mailing lists. > > > > How? > > If there is consensus in this discussion thread, I would request the new > > mailing list next Monday. > > In case of discussions, I will start a vote on Monday or when the > > discussions have stopped. > > Then, we should put the new list on our website and start promoting it > (in > > said DingTalk group and on social media). > > > > Let me know what you think about this idea :) > > > > Best, > > Robert > > > > > > PS: In case you are wondering what ZH stands for: > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ZH > > >
