Thanks Christopher, I think it's a great idea. It's certainly better than IRC and mailing lists for attracting new contributors.
I went ahead and created the channel (#thrift). I'll also add a link to it in the new website. Everyone, feel free to join and participate as much (or as little) as you desire. If you have an @apache.org account, you can signup directly here: https://the-asf.slack.com/signup On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, at 19:41, Christopher wrote: > Is there any interest in having a Thrift channel in ASF's Slack instance? > It could be useful for extemporaneous chat, mentoring, onboarding, and > quick user questions for Thrift. > > I could create a Thrift channel for the community. I just don't want > to be the only one lurking in there. > > I know some projects might still be using IRC... I don't know if > that's the case for Thrift or not, but more and more people seem to be > using Slack these days. Even if IRC is used, it's probably a good idea > to have a presence in Slack (since it's available to us) anyway. >
