Chris, On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM Christopher Schultz < [email protected]> wrote:
> Coty, > > On 12/5/25 11:58 AM, Coty Sutherland wrote: > > I think I was the only person in the IRC channel for #tomcat for the > > longest time, but I haven't used IRC in forever since the whole freenode > > debacle. Is anyone else there to answer the occasional question from > users? > > Certainly not me. If it's not you, I think it's nobody. > > > If not, should we drop it from the site at > > https://tomcat.apache.org/irc.html? > > +1 for removing this since nobody is manning it. > I'll remove it then. > > > We could switch to suggesting Slack to connect like some of the > > other projects have, if nobody is opposed to that. > Is the ASF Slack publicly available? I can't even remember. But I almost > never look there myself, me being allergic to Slack. Surely there are > those who are allergic to mailing lists. :/ > Projects like Cassandra suggest using Slack for comms; see https://cassandra.apache.org/_/community.html. I'm on a couple Slack channels daily for work, so I'm there :) If nobody is opposed, I think adding the Slack channel as an option for engaging is a good idea. > > -chris > >
