Set up an official slack or discord workspace

[goldhand]

This is part of the proposal in #2703 (comment)

Set up an official slack workspace. Skip the heroku hosting, just do a free one. https://github.com/lerna/website/issues/47 as evidence supporting not hosting your own on heroku. You can also use the free plan with discord.com. Either one would work. I would suggest opening up the workspace to anyone interested and then restricting access via channels for maintainers (rather than requiring users to have a @thejameskyle.com email address — with this current setup, I'm discouraged from trying to become a maintainer and unable to just poke my head in and ask clarifying questions).

1. Create a private, invite only, maintainers channel.
2. The general channel can be open for anyone to discuss.
3. Maybe create help, features etc channels optionally.

Problem

It's very unclear HOW to become a maintainer - This issue #1172 is calling for maintainers but provides no path for maintainers to answer the call. This issue https://github.com/lerna/website/issues/47 (that's been open since 2018) points out that https://slack.lernajs.io/ is down. I continued searching and I found this comment that mentions a lerna slack channel and so I tried to join the lernajs.slack channel and was told I needed to sign up with a @thejameskyle.com email address. This seems like a very odd barrier for interested maintainers to have to over come. I'm assuming that @jamiebuilds can elaborate on this decision because he owns the thejameskyle.com domain. I then checked out the lerna twitter account as suggested on lerna.js.org but found the last post is from 2018 and assumed any communication via that channel would be ignored.

[goldhand]

I went ahead and created lerna.slack.com

Here is an invite link

(updated 12.9.20)

[yinonov]

Link is no longer valid. is this still a public workspace? possible to re-share an invite?

[quantuminformation]

discord is the way to go

[Arkady-Skvortsov]

Can you send a NEW LINK pls?); I have some complex problems with Lerna and dunno why; I want to speak with DEV's of Lerna

[JamesHenry]

Hi Folks 👋

Our team took over stewardship of the project last year, and the slack we recommend to join is the Nrwl Community one.

There is a #lerna channel in there.

https://go.nrwl.io/join-slack

Many thanks!