(cc: PMC) Hey folks
We require a forum to provide users of Kafka with information such as release announcements. Traditionally, we have been announcing through users@ mailing list and blogs hosted by Apache. More recently, we have started sharing release announcements via blog on Apache Kafka website https://kafka.apache.org/blog . We now have an emerging need to broadcast ad-hoc information with the users such as notifications of major bugs / workarounds, notifications for impact of CVEs etc. We will continue to use users@ mailing list as the primary broadcast mechanism. However, users@ mailing list had additional traffic other than announcements. This makes it difficult to search for relevant content and filter out noise. Hence, I think we need a secondary medium which can consolidate all announcements at one place and make it easy to search and subscribe. For this secondary medium, may I suggest renaming the blog on Apache Kafka website to "news". This "news" will be a secondary medium for broadcasting information to users. Posts on this "news" will follow the usual process of merging a commit (hence, won't put additional responsibilities on PMC). Later, we can work towards adding RSS feed to enable "subscription" to this news and add additional filters such as CVE clarifications etc. What do you think? -- Divij Vaidya
