Some time ago even the ASF Infra team stopped using IRC. They now use Slack and there is an "official" ASF Slack group. I asked if it was ok if projects could create themselves a channel and they said, "sure!"
Here it is! - https://the-asf.slack.com/messages/CGN2PPR55 I invite everyone to jump in. I explicitly caution, however, you must understand this one critical directive of The Apache Way: - "If it didn't happen on the dev list, it didn't happen." This means you can never say "Oh we talked about that on slack and decided x." All Slack conversations of any substance need to be brought to the dev list. WARNING: If you are visible for weeks on the slack channel and invisible for weeks on the dev list, you will be removed from the slack channel. -- David Blevins http://twitter.com/dblevins http://www.tomitribe.com
