I agree with Sean that a Spark-specific Stack Exchange likely won't help and almost certainly won't make it out of Area 51. The idea certainly sounds nice from our perspective as Spark users, but it doesn't mesh with the structure of Stack Exchange or the criteria for creating new sites.
On Thu Jan 22 2015 at 1:23:14 PM Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > FWIW I am a moderator for datascience.stackexchange.com, and even that > hasn't really achieved the critical mass that SE sites are supposed > to: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/55053/data-science > > I think a Spark site would have a lot less traffic. One annoyance is > that people can't figure out when to post on SO vs Data Science vs > Cross Validated. A Spark site would have the same problem, > fragmentation and cross posting with SO. I don't think this would be > accepted as a StackExchange site and don't think it helps. > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:16 PM, pierred <pie...@demartines.com> wrote: > > > > A dedicated stackexchange site for Apache Spark sounds to me like the > > logical solution. Less trolling, more enthusiasm, and with the > > participation of the people on this list, I think it would very quickly > > become the reference for many technical questions, as well as a great > > vehicle to promote the awesomeness of Spark. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > >
