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
> 

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