Awesome, thanks a lot Gordon! I've asked Infra to add you as a moderator: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-17865
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:15 AM Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai <tzuli...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I'll be willing to help with moderating the user-zh@ list. > > Cheers, > Gordon > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 5:05 PM Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > I'm now getting more and more MODERATE emails from the mailing list > service > > for the user-zh@ list from people trying to subscribe. > > I would like to ask if any committer (who ideally speaks Chinese) is > > willing to moderate the user-zh@ list. > > > > This works as follows: > > When somebody who is not subscribed to the mailing list is trying to > post a > > message there, the moderators receive an email like this: > > > > > > > To approve: > > > user-zh-accept-1550048049.51177....@flink.apache.org > > > <user-zh-accept-1550048049.51177.nx...@flink.apache.org>To reject: > > > user-zh-reject-1550048049.51177.x...@flink.apache.org > > > <user-zh-reject-1550048049.51177xx...@flink.apache.org>To give a > reason > > > to reject: > > > %%% Start comment > > > %%% End comment > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > From: "XXXX" <xxx...@163.com> > > > To: user...@flink.apache.org > > > Cc: > > > Bcc: > > > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2019 16:37:19 +0800 > > > Subject: Sub > > > Sub > > > > > > This means xxx...@163.com has send an email to user...@flink.apache.org > > without being subscribed. > > Option 1 is to send an email to > > user-zh-accept-1550048049.51177....@flink.apache.org > > <user-zh-accept-1550048049.51177.nx...@flink.apache.org> to accept this > > message to the list. But in this case, the message does not have any > > meaningful content. > > So instead, what I do is, I directly send an email to xxx...@163.com, > > explaining how to subscribe to the mailing list. > > It is important that people on the user list are subscribed before > posting, > > so that they receive the answers to their questions. > > > > In rare cases people send emails that moderators can just accept (for > > example when a well-known subscriber to the list is accidentally posting > > from a different address). > > > > Which Flink committer is willing to help out here? > > > > Best, > > Robert > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:29 AM Jark Wu <imj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > > Subscribed. Looking forward to the first Chinese question ;) > > > > > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 17:16, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Success! > > > > The mailing list has been created. > > > > > > > > Send an email to "user-zh-subscr...@flink.apache.org" to subscribe! > > > > I've also updated the website with the list: > > > > https://flink.apache.org/community.html > > > > > > > > I will now also tweet about it, even though I believe it'll be more > > > > important to advertise the list on Chinese social media platforms. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:52 AM ZILI CHEN <wander4...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > +1，sounds good > > > > > > > > > > Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> 于2019年1月29日周二 上午1:46写道： > > > > > > > > > > > I'm late to this party but big +1. Great idea! I think this will > > help > > > > > > to better represent the actual Flink community size and increase > > > > > > interaction between the English and non-English speaking > community. > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 6:02 PM jincheng sun < > > > sunjincheng...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > +1，I like the idea very much！ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org>于2019年1月24日 周四19:15写道： > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I would like to create a new user support mailing list > called " > > > > > > > > user...@flink.apache.org" to cater the Chinese-speaking > Flink > > > > > > community. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Why? > > > > > > > > In the last year 24% of the traffic on flink.apache.org came > > > from > > > > > the > > > > > > US, > > > > > > > > 22% from China. In the last three months, China is at 30%, > the > > US > > > > at > > > > > > 20%. > > > > > > > > An additional data point is that there's a Flink DingTalk > group > > > > with > > > > > > more > > > > > > > > than 5000 members, asking Flink questions. > > > > > > > > I believe that knowledge about Flink should be available in > > > public > > > > > > forums > > > > > > > > (our mailing list), indexable by search engines. If there's a > > > huge > > > > > > demand > > > > > > > > in a Chinese language support, we as a community should > provide > > > > these > > > > > > users > > > > > > > > the tools they need, to grow our community and to allow them > to > > > > > follow > > > > > > the > > > > > > > > Apache way. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is it possible? > > > > > > > > I believe it is, because a number of other Apache projects > are > > > > > running > > > > > > > > non-English user@ mailing lists. > > > > > > > > Apache OpenOffice, Cocoon, OpenMeetings, CloudStack all have > > > > > > non-English > > > > > > > > lists: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ > > > > > > > > One thing I want to make very clear in this discussion is > that > > > all > > > > > > project > > > > > > > > decisions, developer discussions, JIRA tickets etc. need to > > > happen > > > > in > > > > > > > > English, as this is the primary language of the Apache > > Foundation > > > > and > > > > > > our > > > > > > > > community. > > > > > > > > We should also clarify this on the page listing the mailing > > > lists. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How? > > > > > > > > If there is consensus in this discussion thread, I would > > request > > > > the > > > > > > new > > > > > > > > mailing list next Monday. > > > > > > > > In case of discussions, I will start a vote on Monday or when > > the > > > > > > > > discussions have stopped. > > > > > > > > Then, we should put the new list on our website and start > > > promoting > > > > > it > > > > > > (in > > > > > > > > said DingTalk group and on social media). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Let me know what you think about this idea :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > > > Robert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > PS: In case you are wondering what ZH stands for: > > > > > > > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ZH > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
