I also feel that having all the resources to get help in more or less one place (#cassandra-dev slack / ML) probably helps newcomers on the whole since they can ask questions and likely engage with someone who can help. I know that I've asked a few silly questions in #cassandra-dev and appreciated that there were more experienced project members to help answer them.
If we wanted to have a set of designated "newcomer mentors" or some such that seems useful in addition. Perhaps their email/handles on the website in the contributing section with an encouragement to ask them first if you're unsure who to ask? -Joey On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 10:16 AM Sumanth Pasupuleti <sumanth.pasupuleti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 that existing channels of communication (cassandra-dev slack and mailing > lists) should ideally suffice, and I have not seen prohibitive > communication in those forums thus far that goes against newcomers. I agree > it can be intimidating, but to Bowen's point, the more traffic we see > around newcomers in those forums, the more comfortable it gets. > I agree starting a new channel is a low effort experiment we can do, but > the success depends on finding mentors and the engagement of mentors vs I > believe engagement in #cassandra-dev is almost guaranteed given the high > number of people in the channel. > > Thanks, > Sumanth > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 6:47 AM Bowen Song <bo...@bso.ng.invalid> wrote: > > > As a newcomer (made two commits since October) who has been watching > > this mailing list since then, I don't like the idea of a separate > > channel for beginner questions. The volume in this mailing list is > > fairly low, I can't see any legitimate reason for diverting a portion of > > that into another channel, further reducing the volume in the existing > > channel and perhaps not creating much volume in the new channel either. > > > > Personally, I think a clearly written and easy to find community > > guideline highlighting that this mailing list is suitable for beginner > > questions, and give some suggestions/recommendations on when, where and > > how to ask beginner questions would be more useful. > > > > At the moment because the volume of beginner questions is very very low > > in this mailing list, newcomers like me don't feel comfortable asking > > questions here. That's not because there's 600 pair of eyes watching > > this (TBH, if you didn't mention it, I wouldn't have noticed it), but > > because the herd mentality. If not many questions are asked here, most > > people won't start doing that. It's all about creating the environment > > that makes people feel comfortable asking questions here. > > > > On 08/11/2021 16:28, Benjamin Lerer wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for > > newcomers > > > to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600 > > > followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for > > > newcomers. > > > This proposal makes total sense to me. > > > > > > What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it? > > > > > > Benjamin > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
