Henry, I think that the requirement is that project decisions need to be made on an Apache controlled resource.
Not sure how many project decisions are made on the user list. I know I answer a ton of Mahout questions on quora. Having more than one arena for answers and reflecting between them for key questions and answers is a good thing for users. On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately as top level Apache project we can not have official > discussions outside Apache domains. > Which means that we still need user@ list as the main mechanism for > users to ask to communicate and ask questions. > > Some Apache projects like Hadoop and Spark also have the community > monitoring Stackoverflow for questions but still maintain user@ list > as the official channel for communication for the project > > - Henry > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I've been asking myself: how can we make it as easy as possible for > future > > users who run into problems to find existing answers? > > > > As an example take this answer from Stephan [1]. This is super valuable > > feedback and a very specific question. Ideally, a new user who runs into > > the same problem should find this answer. > > > > I think the best way to achieve this is Stack Overflow. There are > already a > > couple of questions regarding Flink, but they questions are fragmented > over > > user@ and SO. > > > > Robert already added a suggested tag to the website recently, but I was > > wondering whether we should take this a step further and want to discuss > > the following: > > > > Should we *only* recommend SO for user questions and don't link the user > > list at all? > > > > For example, the Netty project is doing it that way. This has the > advantage > > that 1) there is one conveniently searchable place for user questions, > and > > 2) all the SO pros like voting on answers, it is well known etc. On the > > other hand, you can already search the ML archives with Nabble and what > > about existing questions/answers? > > > > Looking forward to get your feedback. It's also quite possible that there > > is no real problem here and that I'm trying to over engineer this. Feel > > free to tell me. ;-) > > > > – Ufuk > > > > [1] > > > http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Hash-join-exceeded-exception-td1086.html >
