+1 great idea!
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:28 AM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: > +1, I like this idea very much. > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 5:38 AM Jark Wu <imj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > a big +1 to this! > > > > An user-zh mailing list will help more Chinese speaking users and there > > will be more people willing to help answer questions who want to > contribute > > for Flink. > > It's exciting to see the community is embracing Chinese speaking users. > > > > Best, Jark > > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 11:59, shengjk1 <jsjsjs1...@163.com> wrote: > > > > > +1, a good idea > > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > > On 01/25/2019 09:26，Hequn Cheng<chenghe...@gmail.com> wrote： > > > +1 This would be very helpful! > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 8:15 AM Guowei Ma <guowei....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > This not only helps Chinese users but also helps the community to > collect > > > more feedback and scenarios. > > > > > > > > > 在 2019年1月25日，上午2:29，Zhang, Xuefu <xuef...@alibaba-inc.com> 写道： > > > > > > +1 on the idea. This will certainly help promote Flink in China > > > industries. On a side note, it would be great if anyone in the list can > > > help source ideas, bug reports, and feature requests to dev@ list > and/or > > > JIRAs so as to gain broader attention. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Xuefu > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > From:Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> > > > Sent At:2019 Jan. 24 (Thu.) 05:32 > > > To:dev <dev@flink.apache.org> > > > Subject:Re: [DISCUSS] Start a user...@flink.apache.org mailing list > for > > > the Chinese-speaking community? > > > > > > Thanks Robert! > > > I think this is a very good idea. > > > +1 > > > > > > Fabian > > > > > > Am Do., 24. Jan. 2019 um 14:09 Uhr schrieb Jeff Zhang < > zjf...@gmail.com > > > : > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > Piotr Nowojski <pi...@da-platform.com> 于2019年1月24日周四 下午8:38写道： > > > > > > +1, good idea, especially with that many Chinese speaking contributors, > > > committers & users :) > > > > > > Piotrek > > > > > > On 24 Jan 2019, at 13:20, Kurt Young <ykt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Big +1 on this, it will indeed help Chinese speaking users a lot. > > > > > > fudian.fd <fudian...@alibaba-inc.com>于2019年1月24日 周四20:18写道： > > > > > > +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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Best, > > > Kurt > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Best Regards > > > > > > Jeff Zhang > > > > > > > > > > > >
