I am not sure what is enough traffic. Some of the SE groups already existing do not have that much traffic. Specifically the user mailing list has ~50 emails per day. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to extract 1-2 questions per day from that. In the regular stackoverflow the apache-spark had more than 50 new questions in the last 24 hours alone (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apache-spark?sort=newest&pageSize=50).
I believe this should be enough traffic (and the traffic would rise once quality answers begin to appear). From: Sean Owen [via Apache Spark Developers List] [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 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 <[hidden email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=20007&i=0>> wrote: Sorry to reawaken this, but I just noticed it is possible to propose new topic specific sites (http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq) for stack overflow. So for example we might have a spark.stackexchange.com<http://spark.stackexchange.com> spark specific site. The advantage of such a site are many. First of all it is spark specific. Secondly the reputation of people would be on spark and not on general questions and lastly (and most importantly in my opinion) it would have spark based moderators (which are all spark moderator as opposed to general technology). The process of creating such a site is not complicated. Basically someone creates a proposal (I have no problem doing so). Then creating 5 example questions (something we want on the site) and get 5 people need to ‘follow’ it within 3 days. This creates a “definition” phase. The goal is to get at least 40 questions that embody the goal of the site and have at least 10 net votes and enough people follow it. When enough traction has been made (enough questions and enough followers) then the site moves to commitment phase. In this phase users “commit” to being on the site (basically this is aimed to see the community of experts is big enough). Once all this happens the site moves into beta. This means the site becomes active and it will become a full site if it sees enough traction. I would suggest trying to set this up. Thanks, Assaf ________________________________ If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Handling-questions-in-the-mailing-lists-tp19690p20007.html To start a new topic under Apache Spark Developers List, email ml-node+s1001551n1...@n3.nabble.com<mailto:ml-node+s1001551n1...@n3.nabble.com> To unsubscribe from Apache Spark Developers List, click here<http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=1&code=YXNzYWYubWVuZGVsc29uQHJzYS5jb218MXwtMTI4OTkxNTg1Mg==>. NAML<http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Handling-questions-in-the-mailing-lists-tp19690p20008.html Sent from the Apache Spark Developers List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
