Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling comfortable with channels? They can also be per specific area or something like that?
I also feel that not many people will use another public channel, especially someone shy in very early career. On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 11:39, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote: > New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused > channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and it'll > have the same problem). > > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer <ble...@apache.org> 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 > > >
