Hey Werner and Jakartees,
It was briefly discussed via the Community forum (i think) if a Jakarta public slack was valuable.
Most individuals who chose to provide feedback, stated that it was not needed as Jakarta would create dedicated public mailing lists to avoid adding extra "communication-debt" or what I call, bottleneck-executions that (drops proper scaling and tracing of HOW OSS ought to WORK, mailing LISTs) further forum public emails avoid vacuum-working where Slack "private chosen entitlement " of a few who might expect his/her private exchanges to be a call to ASAP action by others hurts progress.
As such, it is the individual's choice to participate, actually own extra communication consumption, say by subscribing to particular mailing lists &/or slacks with more than 2 channels.
Neither you, Werner nor I ought to project our communication preferences to whatever is meant to be tried by other Jakartees.
disclosure: It doesn't mean that I, myself, will choose to join a new Jkta slack public group. Everything lies on how I, you, us CHOICE to collaborating! I will continue to choose mailing lists, FIRST without stating how many slacks I am a member off, etc-- thats irrelevant. So let's step back and focus on the broader scope. :)
Cheers,