hi everyone, the GitHub Discussion for InLong [1] has opened up, please
have a try.

[1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-inlong/discussions

Zirui Peng <[email protected]> 于2022年2月26日周六 17:11写道:

> 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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