Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread eliasah
Besides the traffic eventual issue, I don't believe that it would benefit users to get a standalone site. Some great answers are provided by users that aren't spark experts but maybe java, python, aws or even some system experts why do we want to play alone ? We are trying nevertheless the

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread Ioannis.Deligiannis
To: assaf.mendelson; dev@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Here's a view into the requirements, for example: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/76571/emacs<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__area51.stackexchange.com_proposals_76571_em

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread Sean Owen
ache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden > email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node=20008=0>] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 24, 2016 12:32 PM > > > *To:* Mendelson, Assaf > *Subject:* Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists > > > > I don't think

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread assaf.mendelson
] [mailto:ml-node+s1001551n2000...@n3.nabble.com] Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 12:32 PM To: Mendelson, Assaf Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists I don't think there's nearly enough traffic to sustain a stand-alone SE. I helped mod the Data Science SE and it's still not technically

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-24 Thread Sean Owen
I don't think there's nearly enough traffic to sustain a stand-alone SE. I helped mod the Data Science SE and it's still not technically critical mass after 2 years. It would just fracture the discussion to yet another place. On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 6:52 AM assaf.mendelson

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-23 Thread assaf.mendelson
-node+s1001551n19916...@n3.nabble.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 4:33 PM To: Mendelson, Assaf Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Awesome stuff! Thanks Sean! :-) On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 05:57 Sean Owen <[hidden email]> wrote: I updated the wiki to point to the /c

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-16 Thread Sean Owen
t;http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node=19891=0>] Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 8:52 AM To: Mendelson, Assaf Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Hey Reynold, Looks like we all of the proposed changes into Proposed Community Mailing Lists / StackOverflow Changes <

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-15 Thread assaf.mendelson
+s1001551n19835...@n3.nabble.com] Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 8:52 AM To: Mendelson, Assaf Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Hey Reynold, Looks like we all of the proposed changes into Proposed Community Mailing Lists / StackOverflow Changes<https://docs.google.com/documen

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-12 Thread Denny Lee
a Apache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden > email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node=19800=0>] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 09, 2016 9:54 AM > *To:* Mendelson, Assaf > *Subject:* Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists > > > > Agreed that by simply j

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-10 Thread Holden Karau
ot sure this is a good fit. > > Assaf. > > > > *From:* Denny Lee [via Apache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden > email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node=19800=0>] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 09, 2016 9:54 AM > *To:* Mendelson, Assaf >

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-09 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
ty should answer and hard questions which only advanced users > can answer. > > > > Maybe SO isn’t the correct platform for that but even within it we can > try to find a non meta name for spark beginner questions vs. spark > advanced questions. > > Assaf. > >

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-09 Thread Denny Lee
ally to fix that. > >> > >> For example, we might say that mailing list A is only for voting, > mailing > >> list B is only for PR and have something like stack overflow for > developer > >> questions (I would even go as far as to have beginner, i

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-09 Thread Gerard Maas
>> wrote: >>>>>>> > There's already reviews@ and issues@. dev@ is for project >>>>>>> development itself >>>>>>> > and I think is OK. You're suggesting splitting up user@ and I >>>>>>> sympathize >>>

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-09 Thread assaf.mendelson
Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Agreed that by simply just moving the questions to SO will not solve anything but I think the call out about the meta-tags is that we need to abide by SO rules and if we were to just jump in and start creating meta-tags, we would be violating

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-08 Thread Denny Lee
it we can try > to find a non meta name for spark beginner questions vs. spark advanced > questions. > > Assaf. > > > > > > *From:* Denny Lee [via Apache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden > email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node=19798=0&

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-08 Thread assaf.mendelson
maybe >> advanced ones) but more for dev questions. It is so easy to get lost in the >> chatter that it makes it very hard for people to learn spark internals… >> >> Assaf. >> >> >> >> From: Sean Owen [mailto:[hidden >> email]] >> Sent: Wed

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-08 Thread Michael Segel
he main issue is not user questions (except maybe >> advanced ones) but more for dev questions. It is so easy to get lost in the >> chatter that it makes it very hard for people to learn spark internals… >> >> Assaf. >> >> >> >> From: Sean Owen [mailto:so

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-07 Thread Denny Lee
at mailing list A is only for voting, > mailing > >> list B is only for PR and have something like stack overflow for > developer > >> questions (I would even go as far as to have beginner, intermediate and > >> advanced mailing list for users and beginner/advanced for

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-07 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
(I would even go as far as to >>> have beginner, intermediate and >>> >> advanced mailing list for users and >>> beginner/advanced for dev). >>> >> >>>

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-07 Thread Ricardo Almeida
hat committers for example can > look at advanced only tag and have a manageable number of questions they > can help with while others can answer medium and basic. > > > > I agree that some things are not good for SO. Basically stuff which asks > for opinion is such but most cases in

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-07 Thread Ioannis.Deligiannis
per SO rules. From: Matei Zaharia [mailto:matei.zaha...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 November 2016 07:45 To: assaf.mendelson Cc: dev@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists Even for the mailing list, I'd love to have a short set of instructions on how to submit your quest

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Matei Zaharia
t; > > > > From: rxin [via Apache Spark Developers List] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden email] > ] > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 8:33 AM > To: Mendelson, Assaf > Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists > > > > This is an excellent point. If

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Reynold Xin
advanced@ to >>>>>> > get attention, and we'll be back where we started. Putting it in >>>>>> JIRA >>>>>> > doesn't help. I don't think this a problem that is merely down to >>>>>> lack of >>>>>> > proces

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
>> >> >> This can easily be done using stack overflow >> tags, however, that would >> >> probably be harder to manage. >>

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
>> > >> Anyway as I said, the main issue is not user > questions (except maybe > >> advanced ones) but more for dev questions. It is so > easy to get lost in the > >> ch

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-06 Thread Reynold Xin
ow for >>>> developer >>>> >> questions (I would even go as far as to have beginner, intermediate >>>> and >>>> >> advanced mailing list for users and beginner/advanced for dev). >>>> >> >>>> >&

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Reynold Xin
and beginner/advanced for dev). >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> This can easily be done using stack overflow tags, however, that would >>> >> probably be harder to manage. >>> >> >>> >> Maybe using speci

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Nicholas Chammas
probably be harder to manage. > >> > >> Maybe using special jira tags and manage it in jira? > >> > >> > >> > >> Anyway as I said, the main issue is not user questions (except maybe > >> advanced ones) but more for dev questions. It is

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Ricardo Almeida
>> advanced ones) but more for dev questions. It is so easy to get lost in > the > >> chatter that it makes it very hard for people to learn spark internals… > >> > >> Assaf. > >> > >> > >> > >> From: Sean Owen [mailto:so...@cloudera.com

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Cody Koeninger
people to learn spark internals… >> >> Assaf. >> >> >> >> From: Sean Owen [mailto:so...@cloudera.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 2:07 PM >> To: Mendelson, Assaf; dev@spark.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Handling questions in

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Sean Owen
com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 02, 2016 2:07 PM > *To:* Mendelson, Assaf; dev@spark.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists > > > > I think that unfortunately mailing lists don't scale well. This one has > thousands of subscribers with different

RE: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Mendelson, Assaf
questions. It is so easy to get lost in the chatter that it makes it very hard for people to learn spark internals… Assaf. From: Sean Owen [mailto:so...@cloudera.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 2:07 PM To: Mendelson, Assaf; dev@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: Handling questions in the mailing

Re: Handling questions in the mailing lists

2016-11-02 Thread Sean Owen
I think that unfortunately mailing lists don't scale well. This one has thousands of subscribers with different interests and levels of experience. For any given person, most messages will be irrelevant. I also find that a lot of questions on user@ are not well-asked, aren't an SSCCE (