Forgot to mention, this effort was done in coordination with Noble and Kishore Angani, and was mostly a weekend hack.
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 10:25 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > We support two ways of providing support: mailing list and IRC. > While solr-users' list has been great for support, many users have > expressed the need for more real time support. IRC, alas, has fallen out of > favour these days among developers, and Slack (and others) have gained > popularity. > > I've recently published an informal poll on this issue: > https://twitter.com/ichattopadhyaya/status/1339484670988222464 > > Based on the positive response, I setup a slack org for this purpose. > Since I didn't want to make this an official medium of support, I just > setup a bi-directional relay against our IRC. Hence, there's perhaps no > change needed to our official guidance for seeking support, but this slack > can be seen as an unofficial IRC client/proxy. > > Are there any concerns/objections to this approach? I would appreciate if > you please join it > https://apachesolr.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-jzazjtt3-ug05O_XUHI1UJGVTgdrE~g#/ > and give it a try, before we announce it over the solr-users' list and > elsewhere. > > Regards, > Ishan >
