[DISCUSS] Local Language mailing list?

[申远 <sh...@gmail.com>]

Hi, guys

As Weex is created by a group of Chinese developers, and there are plenty of Chinese users / contributors for weex project and most Github issues of weex https://github.com/apache/incubator-weex/issues <https://github.com/apache/incubator-weex/issues> are Chinese too. It’s difficult to get our users in China involved in the community, as written English in this mailing list is a challenge for many Chinese-speaking users.

Is it necessary to create a Chinese mailing list to get more people speaking Chinese involved?
What’s common rule for official language used in Apache project’s community, English only? Or bilingual community is also fine.

Re: [DISCUSS] Local Language mailing list?

[申远 <sh...@gmail.com>]

It took me a while to read the language discussion of RocketMQ. I think we can follow the rules below:
Only bug report is allowed on Github issues, and discussions / feature request / etc..  should be moved to mailing list. In fact, PPMC’s might need to encourage users to move such thread to mailing list.
Discussion happens on the mailing list should be English and it is PPMC’s job to encourage people get involved in the mailing list with English
Bug report on Github can be any language, actually, I think it’s totally acceptable to report a bug in any language if the user would like to.
Maybe I should write the above rule formally in the document when I am available.


> 在 2019年1月25日，15:40，Willem Jiang <wi...@gmail.com> 写道：
> 
> There was a hot discussion[1] about the mailing list language when
> RocketMQ join the Apache.
> We still need to encourage people to use the mailing list with English
> for the audience around the world.
> In the meantime, we could lower the bar by let more people involved by
> avoiding the internal discussion first and starting the discussion in
> the public mailing list.
> 
> [1]https://www.mail-archive.com/general@incubator.apache.org/msg57218.html
> 
> Willem Jiang
> 
> Twitter: willemjiang
> Weibo: 姜宁willem
> 
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:57 PM 申远 <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, guys
>> 
>> As Weex is created by a group of Chinese developers, and there are plenty of Chinese users / contributors for weex project and most Github issues of weex https://github.com/apache/incubator-weex/issues <https://github.com/apache/incubator-weex/issues> are Chinese too. It’s difficult to get our users in China involved in the community, as written English in this mailing list is a challenge for many Chinese-speaking users.
>> 
>> Is it necessary to create a Chinese mailing list to get more people speaking Chinese involved?
>> What’s common rule for official language used in Apache project’s community, English only? Or bilingual community is also fine.

Re: [DISCUSS] Local Language mailing list?

[Willem Jiang <wi...@gmail.com>]

There was a hot discussion[1] about the mailing list language when
RocketMQ join the Apache.
We still need to encourage people to use the mailing list with English
for the audience around the world.
In the meantime, we could lower the bar by let more people involved by
avoiding the internal discussion first and starting the discussion in
the public mailing list.

[1]https://www.mail-archive.com/general@incubator.apache.org/msg57218.html

Willem Jiang

Twitter: willemjiang
Weibo: 姜宁willem

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:57 PM 申远 <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, guys
>
> As Weex is created by a group of Chinese developers, and there are plenty of Chinese users / contributors for weex project and most Github issues of weex https://github.com/apache/incubator-weex/issues <https://github.com/apache/incubator-weex/issues> are Chinese too. It’s difficult to get our users in China involved in the community, as written English in this mailing list is a challenge for many Chinese-speaking users.
>
> Is it necessary to create a Chinese mailing list to get more people speaking Chinese involved?
> What’s common rule for official language used in Apache project’s community, English only? Or bilingual community is also fine.