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 > > >
