It can be frustrating when someone posts a question to both the user list and to StackOverflow. It means that the community has to answer the question in two places.
But like many problems, that is an opportunity. Answering StackOverflow questions is a great way for people to contribute without writing code. If you take the view that everyone reading or writing StackOverflow is part of the community — and I do — then StackOverflow is an excellent way to grow community. Julian > On Apr 4, 2019, at 10:33 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just subscribe to appropriate tags on stack overflow and direct > notifications to the dev list. > > Then encourage the community to answer on stack overflow. > > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 6:32 PM Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> I think a user@ mailing list is better for the project’s sustainability >> and Apache. >> >> I have examples related to POI where there is substantial StackOverflow >> support happening. >> >> 12 years ago I became a POI committer for answering user questions. >> >> Recently we asked an active StackOverflow answer if he was interested in >> being a committer and StackOverflow was his community. >> >> Apache records are always better than stuff at another company. Gmane and >> markmail email links have rotted away. >> >> I would encourage a user list for the visibility for the PMC in >> understanding what’s happening along with a more coherent community! >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Apr 3, 2019, at 6:02 PM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> The superset podling is working out their processes around FAQs and >>> answering user questions. One thing that they have suggested is that >> they >>> encourage people to use StackOverflow for questions and answers given the >>> ease of searching old questions, etc. You can see the mail thread at >>> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1cd1c1e7d02d712ec4e1a13a50cb6016318be5e55ca023b10087cb61@%3Cdev.superset.apache.org%3E >>> >>> Personally I think encouraging podlings to use tools they and everyone >> are >>> comfortable with and that meet our criteria of being open to all is a >> good >>> thing, but I wanted to check if there was official policy on this before >>> they proceed with it. >>> >>> Alan. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
