Thanks for your advice ! Best, zirui
On 2022/02/25 06:07:41 tison wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I notice a rising wave of InLong WeChat groups that users asking > questions about > using InLong especially "How do I do X" and "Does/When InLong support > feature Y". > > Answers occur in the groups, but information shared there can hardly be > shared with the wider > community. For example, if other users have the same problem but not in the > group (a WeChat > group can hold 500 members at most), it's troublesome to bring the whole > thread to those users > or another group. Also, instant messaging channel tends to generate chats > instead of topic > focused discussion. > > Thus I propose that we turn on the GitHub Discussion feature[1] according > to INFRA's doc[2] and > guide our users there for asking questions so that we collect FAQs and best > practices publicly. > > Alternatives: > > (1) Mailing list. We already have a mailing list and it's easy to create a > user@ list for users. > However, currently most users of InLong comes from China and many of them > are unfamiliar > with mailing list. As I talked about in this ComDev thread[3], we may think > of other channels > for exact user groups. > (2) A forum or other platform. I don't find resource supports for building > such a platform, though. > It's possible to hold a forum as Apache TVM does[4]. > > Pending questions: > > The most significant question here is which categories we should hold > especially which > language we used. > > I think we can hold a Q&A category only at first, as tonic does[5], since > we're resolving the > requirement about user questions. For language concerns, I tend to > encourage everybody uses > English as it's the most comprehensive language among the community. Most > questions > should be easily expressed in English. > > Looking forward to your thoughts. > > Best, > tison. > > [1] https://docs.github.com/en/discussions > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/git+-+.asf.yaml+features#Git.asf.yamlfeatures-GitHubDiscussions > [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/bvgqbrmdwwszbmhh4pnx1njktgwwjkw4 > [4] https://discuss.tvm.apache.org/ > [5] https://github.com/hyperium/tonic/discussions >
