I think this could be a good opportunity to revive the group. I can see that posts are already getting genuine views and impressions, which is encouraging.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > This seems like a good idea! > > If everyone agrees, I can take this work up (in case the RM / contributor > skips posting). > > I post the community meetup updates anyway so it should be aligned with it. > > On Nov 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM -0600, David Smiley via dev <[email protected]>, > wrote: > > I think it'd be good publicity of Solr happenings to have our "news" > > (really all posts) relayed to the Solr LinkedIn Group > > https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1557747/ (5,819 members at present) > > Since posts need to come from someone with an account, this can't really > be > > automated. I think the simplest thing is: > > (1) update our GitHub PR template for solr-site to suggest that the > > contributor share the info to the LinkedIn group (with URL). > > (2) Solr release wizard suggests the same for the RM as a post release > > task. If they can't or don't want to, they can ask another community > > member to do this. > > > > ~ David Smiley > > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >
