+1. I noticed that many folks from China are requesting the JIRA permission in the past year. It reflects that more and more developers from China are using Flink. A Chinese oriented mailing list will definitely be helpful for the growth of Flink in China.
> 在 2019年1月24日，下午7:42，Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> 写道： > > +1, a very nice idea > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:41 PM Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> wrote: > >> 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 >>>> >>> >>
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