Permission to invite a Haystack maintainer to a neutral tool-result failure interview? #12293

Hi maintainers — I’m checking permission before posting a recruitment request or tagging anyone.

I’m running a small, non-commercial research study with engineers who have maintained real Agent/MCP tool workflows in production, an internal pilot, or CI during the past 12 months. The topic is calls that appear successful but return empty/incomplete results, end a stream early, or fail to produce the intended side effect. The interview asks about one concrete past incident and the existing handling; counterexamples are equally useful. There is no product promotion, external survey, or request for customer data.

Would it be acceptable to invite a Haystack maintainer through one General discussion, or is there a preferred non-Discord channel? I will not post in an issue/PR or cross-post.