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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Replace user@f.a.o with Stackoverflow
From: Henry Saputra <henry.saputra@gmail.com>
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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 <uce@apache.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've been asking myself: how can we make it as easy as possible for futur=
e
> 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 ov=
er
> 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 advanta=
ge
> that 1) there is one conveniently searchable place for user questions, an=
d
> 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. ;-)
>
> =E2=80=93 Ufuk
>
> [1]
> http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Hash-=
join-exceeded-exception-td1086.html